But again, he'll gladly trade a majority vote for that electoral college degree

AJC ^ | 10/21/04

[Pfesser]

We were chatting the other day with Richard Murray, professor of political science at the University of Houston, who made an interesting observation: No matter whether George W. Bush is re-elected, the president's home state of Texas could be the largest obstacle standing between him and a majority of the national vote.

Four years ago, Bush collected 50,456,062 total votes to Al Gore's 50,996,582. It was that close only because of the hefty 59 percent margin Bush pulled out of Texas. Fortunate or not, the favorite son won his state with 1.3 million votes to spare. Current Texas polls show that Bush is falling short of that watermark this year — that a dip in Hispanic support probably will shave his margin.

[Pfesser]

Come on Texans. Get out the Bush vote!

[native texan]

I think this is wishful thinking. Everyone around here is very pro Bush. I voted yesterday; it was a good feeling to get it done. The voting is the heavest it has ever been in early voting.

[vrwinger]

I despise this whole "won the popular vote but lost the EC" conversation... The Yankees scored more total runs than the Red Sox over the seven games, but only won 3 games. No one ever says, "The Red Sox are representing the AL in the World Series even though the Yankess scored more runs over the seven games..." The Popular vs. EC vote is exactly the same situation. It's not how you determined the winner, so don't even bring it up.

[TBarnett34]

I wouldn't be that concerned with what the Al-Jazeera Constitution has to say.

[pabianice]

"This is your brain. This is your brain with constipation..."

[Tallguy]

I'm sure that if Bush wins the popular vote, and Kerry wins in the Electoral College, Kerry will concede the election to Bush since the Dems have already declared the EC to be illegitimate.....< sarcasm OFF >

[sockmonkey]

I'm in Texas. Every hispanic I know in my town is pro-Bush. The only folks I know who are pro-Kerry are the intelligentsia wanna-bes who moved here from somewhere else.

Out here in the sticks, macho, and integrity trumps gigolo, and effetism.

[thulldud]

Good illustration, that, made even better because it uses Kerry's own team (assuming that he actually watched any of the games!)