What is your point? The president has NEVER in our history been elected by popular vote. He won the electoral vote per the process outlined by our Constitution.
The point is simple to me - don't get cocky about the election. Bush didn't win the popular vote. Personally I believe the last couple weeks of negative ads by Gore and the NAACP (?) scared the foolish undecided into voting for Gore. I Think W will win but it would be nice to have the popular vote, which Clinton never got.
Bush didn't win the popular voteYou mean, more votes were counted for Gore than for Bush. Big difference. When you consider how many Democrat votes are fraudulent, Bush received more HONEST votes than Gore.
The reality is that Democrats cannot compete if they depend solely on their traditional base of single welfare mothers, athiests, condom throwers, abortion enthusiasts, the "free Mumia" crowd, government-addicted minority "victims", gold-chained union thugs, screeching feminists, college professors, Hollywood drunks, America-hating malcontents, illegal immigrants, and all the rest of society's losers, parasites, and weirdos. Democrats can only win if they can con enough normal, traditional, taxpaying Americans into (inexplicably) voting with the Democrat base described above.
However, the number of such people who are stupid enough to voluntarily tape "kick me" signs to their own backs has been steadily decreasing. Therefore, the need for vote fraud by the Democrats has reached the desperation stage.
In 2000, the Democrats very nearly stole the Presidency. This year, however, will be an entirely different story because rather than a Justice Department (Clinton's) which will aid and abet Democrat vote fraud, we have a Justice Department (Bush's) which will battle vote fraud. That's a whole lotta taxpayer funded lawyers.
Bush will win in a landslide.
My point is that the Left keeps bringing that up and it's irrelevant. The fact that Bush did or did not win the popular vote means nothing. It's the electoral vote that counts, and has always counted. Also, what happened four years ago when Bush was running as a man who had never been president cannot be compared with today. He has four years of experience. The economy has recovered. Jobs are being created by the thousands each month. We survived 9/11 and overcame the blow that 9/11 gave to the economy.
Also, if what happened in Tampa to Kerry yesterday is any indication of how his campaign is going, then he's dead in the water. Americans trust a leader with experience who has not compromised his position on national security. Besides, if this economy holds, and I think it will, it's almost impossible to defeat a sitting president when the economy is good.