Re: PLEASE IGNORE THAT ONE! All screwed up, multi-duplicated text, ...

From: Joe Marshall (prunesquallor_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/08/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:50:54 GMT

Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com> writes:

> In article <87ekt6lci1.fsf@darkstar.cartan.de>,
> ngo@cartan.de (Nils Gösche) wrote:
>
>> And what was the outcome? George W. Bush. Finally, I am beginning to
>> understand why the American leftists are so eager to reintroduce
>> racist laws in the US.
>
> The outcome was that Bush was *not* elected. Apart from losing the
> popular vote, he had the election handed to him by a right wing Supreme
> Court, which ignored the fact that the contested State, Florida, was
> run, or rather, mismanaged, by the brother of one of the candidates[1].

The popular vote does not determine the outcome, it is the electoral
vote that does. That vote was cast on Dec. 18 and was tallied on
Jan. 5 Technically speaking, Bush *was* elected.

> The 2000 presidential election shows exactly the same thing that the
> aforementioned racist laws show; when you prevent everyone from having a
> say in the electoral process, you get a bad government as a result.

When your only choice is to elect a politician, it doesn't really
matter whether you have a say or not. 

-- 
~jrm

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