On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:59:10 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> For Chrissake, man, the first time W was elected, it was 9 people who
>> decided
> 
>   No it wasn't. Millions of people voted.

And the votes didn't matter.  The race was close enough that voting 
irregularities in Florida (and in the later election in Ohio) needed to 
be dealt with, but instead, 9 people decided GWB was the one for us and 
disenfranchised those millions of people who voted by stopping the 
recount, crowning GWB our king.

>   Just because approximately half of the people voted for and the other
> half against doesn't mean that the votes were null, void and ignored. It
> was still an election with millions of voters.

Ah, so all you have to do is pretend to hold a vote and then it's OK?

How closely did you follow the 2000 election?

Jim

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