I agree. There are a lot of places in America where people think very differently from the way most of the Americans you meet on LiveJournal think.
And of course, our electoral system gives people in states with a lower population, who are more likely to agree with Bush, higher representation both in presidential politics and in congress than a system based purely on population would. That, not the vote-counting scandal in Florida, is the main reason why Bush won in our last presidential election. Gore had 51 million popular votes, compared with Bush's 50.5 million, but Bush got 271 electoral college votes, compared with 266 for Gore.
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Date: May 14th, 2004 06:51 am (UTC)From:And of course, our electoral system gives people in states with a lower population, who are more likely to agree with Bush, higher representation both in presidential politics and in congress than a system based purely on population would. That, not the vote-counting scandal in Florida, is the main reason why Bush won in our last presidential election. Gore had 51 million popular votes, compared with Bush's 50.5 million, but Bush got 271 electoral college votes, compared with 266 for Gore.