The popular vote within each state does count when electors are chosen for the Electoral College.
Really?!? No f'in way! I was referring the notion that everyone that voted for Gore in the election would be now vomiting if he was in office. That makes it sound like it wasn't many people...the fact is,
while it does not mean anything to the electorate is that Gore got more votes..plain and simple. I'm not saying he should have won, if Bush got more electoral votes, he wins, and he did. As much as you would like it, I'm not rehashing history because the outcome was settled, and we have to live with it.
The Electoral College is not going anywhere. Get over it. There is no way in hell the system will ever be changed.
First of all, as I said above, he won the majority of electoral votes, so he won. I'm not arguing that fact. Secondly, the system could be changed if enough people wanted it that way, but that system too has it's faults.
Had Gore won his own state, this would not be an issue. How did he lose his own state?
Not sure...bad decisions on the part of his team would be my guess. As I said before, it doesn't matter, it is settled and Bush won...for better or worse.
I was countering the stance that if Gore had won, all the people that had voted for him would be vomiting with guilt. There is no way to know how a Gore presidency would have taken shape, and to sit behind a keyboard and proclaim what would be if "X" candiate got elected is just pure conjecture...
Basically...woulda, shoulda, coulda...
