[Michael81Dus]

Thanks, but because of 2000 elections, we all know now why your president hasn´t had the majority of the people but of the presidential electoral assembly. :-)

[_Jim]

Thanks, but because of 2000 elections, we all know now why your president hasn´t had the majority of the people

What a 'cop-out', or -

- a basic misundestanding of how our electoral process works.

NEVER mind that Clinton in *two* elections NEVER secured a majority of the votes ...

You are sounding more and more like a democrat apologist (if you don't mind my saying so!) ...

[EBUCK]

Oh yah, didn't figure that your press would have explained it...

[Inkie]

Don't know what you've been reading (or smoking) over there, Mike, but the 2000 election was a dead heat statistically. What's more, all the major (liberal leaning) newspapers did their own recounts in Florida when the election had been solved, and they came up with the same result: Bush won.

As for how we choose our president, it's a lot more democratic than your form, where two minority parties can become a ruling coalition and thwart the majority's choice. That is how you come to the situation where a very small minority can have more than its share of sway over affairs of state, as it has blackmail power over its partner ("give me what I want or I'll leave your coalition and hand government over to the other side").