OT: This Week In Voting Machine Security 3444
What the whiners about the EC don't seem to realize is that had the rules been different, if the candidates knew going in that the popular vote is all that mattered they would have campaigned differently and President Bush might have won the popular vote. As it is he won exactly what he was trying to win, the EC.
No one went to court over a bj... it's only spin that tells the story this way. Clinton made a conscious decision to be dishonest at the wrong time on more than one occasion. Juries...
for the EC. The analogy to the world series is a good one:
"The same logic that governs our electoral system, he saw, also applies to many sports--which Americans do, intuitively, understand. In baseball's World Series, for example, the team that scores the most runs overall is like a candidate who gets the most votes. But to become champion, that team must win the most games. In 1960, during a World Series as nail-bitingly close as that year's presidential battle between Kennedy and Nixon, the New York Yankees, with the awesome slugging combination of Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Bill "Moose" Skowron, scored more than twice as many total runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates, 55 to 27. Yet the Yankees lost the series, four games to three. Even Natapoff, who grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, conceded that Pittsburgh deserved to win. "Nobody walked away saying it was unfair," he says."