I thought GWB won in Fla. by 532 votes.
That's why the Dem-lib-weenies kept asking for recount after recount, in hopes of muddling the situation so much they could "find" enough votes to overturn that thin margin.
Gore would not have gotten Fla.'s electoral college votes because he lost the popular vote in Florida.
The popular vote they are talking about is the national popular vote. Right now, as it stands, the electoral votes go to the person with the state popular vote, under this proposal the electoral votes would go the candidate who wins the national popular vote. In 2000, if all states subscribed to this method, Gore would have won.
Fortunately, this is only in CA, and one other state, and ALL states have to agree to this before it takes effect nation wide. Even then each state could change it's mind and give the electoral votes to whomever they wished, just as they can now.