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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:25 PM
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What if Kerry Lost the Popular vote but won the electoral college?
How would you feel... especially those of us who argue that W is illigite bc he has half a mil fewer votes (of course, we all know that W lost the electoral college too).

Would be mighty ironic, wouldn't it?

THis election is liable to be just as close in 2000 and it most certainly could happen.
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Langis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:25 PM
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1. I would feel great
Payback is a bitch!
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:26 PM
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2. We'd assume that FLA got screwed up again...
and that Kerry REALLY did win the popular vote....
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arcos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:29 PM
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3. a popular vote lose, but an EC landslide...
that would be nice!
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:29 PM
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4. I'd feel wonderful...
I don't care how he wins as long as Kerry is in the White House.
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BJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:29 PM
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5. He'd be president of the United States.
But of course we'd have to listen to endless whining from the right.
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:37 PM
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6. It wasn't the electoral college that was the theft
It was the theft of Florida. If Bush* had really won Florida, he won fair and square. But the voter rolls were purged of people of color, and the votes were never counted.
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TomSeaverr Donating Member (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:38 PM
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Bush won't win the Popular vote
forget that. Because Kerry will beat him bad in the most populous cities/States
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Paradise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:41 PM
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8. that's it exactly, wryter,
but some people just don't get it or just don't want to get it.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:38 PM
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7. He'd be President
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:43 PM
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9. Supreme Court decision 5-4 rules
for Bush. Justice Thomas writes the opinion "In the absence of a clear winner, we must give precedence to the incumbent, for fear of weakening our national defenses in war-time"
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Ficus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:44 PM
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11. scary
ouch. I could see something cheesy like that happening too.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 05:13 PM
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13. Thomas should be impeached...
In the absence of a clear winner, the House of Representatives is supposed to decide.
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Ficus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 04:43 PM
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10. as long as all the votes are counted
I'm cool with how our Constitution sets things up.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 05:12 PM
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12. Chimp isn't illegit because he didn't win the popular vote...
He's illegit because Jebbie rigged Florida for him.
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