No more stolen elections!
The Nation
by John Nichols
10/08/08
The 2000 presidential election was an in-broad-daylight assault on both the concept of democracy and its practice in the United States. Democrat Al Gore received 543,895 more votes nationwide than Republican George Bush. Unfortunately, because American presidential elections are not decided by the voters but by an antiquated and anti-democratic Electoral College, that didn’t mean much. Nor did it mean much that a clear plurality of voters in the contested state of Florida went to the polls with the intention of giving that state’s electoral votes to Gore, and with those electoral votes the presidency...
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/370240
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=presidential+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stolen+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols
by John Nichols
10/08/08
The 2000 presidential election was an in-broad-daylight assault on both the concept of democracy and its practice in the United States. Democrat Al Gore received 543,895 more votes nationwide than Republican George Bush. Unfortunately, because American presidential elections are not decided by the voters but by an antiquated and anti-democratic Electoral College, that didn’t mean much. Nor did it mean much that a clear plurality of voters in the contested state of Florida went to the polls with the intention of giving that state’s electoral votes to Gore, and with those electoral votes the presidency...
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/370240
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=presidential+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=2008+elections
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stolen+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols
rudkla - 9. Okt, 12:18
