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No one brought up the EC before 2000 because the situation that occurred with Gore and Bush hadn't happened since 1888.
I personally think it's a dumb system--why do we need the electoral college? It should be based on the vote of the people, minus any bureaucratic b.s. Gore got screwed.
Having said that, based on the current rules, Bush won, fair and square--and would have still won even if Gore had gotten the recount of votes the way he wanted them.
What if the media would have remembered that part of Florida is on Central Time, and not called Florida for Gore so quickly? Enough people could have still voted to give Gore the victory...or give the victory more solidly to Bush.
And that's why every vote counts.
We can speculate on what would have happened if the same thing had happened to Bush, or what Gore would have done on 9/11...but all that is water under the bridge now.
I wonder whatever happened to S.3269 in 2001...
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