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To: Jacquerie

If it weren’t for the Electoral College We would have President Egore in 2000 instead of President Bush.


4 posted on 02/02/2012 12:23:27 PM PST by tallyhoe
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Because sane people trust the judgement of the Founders over the judgement of today’s politician.....


7 posted on 02/02/2012 12:27:41 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: tallyhoe

And if it weren’t for the electoral college the president would be chosed by California and NY every 4 years. There’s a thought.


26 posted on 02/02/2012 1:53:01 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: tallyhoe; Jacquerie
If it weren’t for the Electoral College We would have President Egore in 2000 instead of President Bush.

Perhaps not. If we had no electoral college, why would Algore have even been the DemocRAT nominee? He had been the Vice-President under Clinton due to the need for the DemocRATS to crack the Republicans' electoral lock of southern states. The ran two southerners from adjacent states. After eight years of being VP and not being a US Senator from Tennessee, he seemed to be much different and had less appeal in the south than he had had in 1988 or 1992. He lost every single southern state including his home state.

Without the electoral college, the DemocRATS would have nominated someone with a much more leftist bent who would have mostly appealed to the various interest groups of the DemocRAT party and the campaign would have been much more urban oriented.

65 posted on 02/02/2012 3:27:33 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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