why if so many Americans hate George W. Bush did they elect him?

Question

This what i dont understand should voting become complusory in America just so we know that they could have done some thing to change their President instead of listening to the co-hort of people who didnt vote whinge that their President isnt doing a good job.

TO SARGE!: what is wrong with the American people on public assistance wanting to vote for their so called democratic elected leader??? Pull your head out of you ars3.

Answer 1

I think wat happen to the election inb America is just the same thing dat happen to Philippines. Arroyo was declared as president again by our government while nobody likes her. She don't do anything gud especially to poor people,All she wants are photo opps.Dats y most filipino's are just going abroad to find ways to let their family survive in the philippines.If i will be ask hu is my president i will not give her name. GLORIA ARROYO u suld be ashamed.wat u hv done to Philippines and its citizen is enuf u,ur family n ur puppet government has given them so much pain.Many families n children hd bin experiencing a broken family syndrome because of ur bastard government. We hope u can be assasinate soon.If Israel will stop its attack to Lebanon n Palestine in exchange for u Filipino's will be grateful to give u.

Answer 2

Remember Florida?
I don't think a majority of people did vote for him!
But that Counting problem pushed him over the line somehow.
Weather or not there was something fishy going on there I don't know but the huge stuff ups that happened there did work in his favor and I have heard that with out all the nonsense that went on he would most probably have lost as a larger proportion of the votes that were disallowed were for the opposition.

Answer 3

Did they elect them? It's a rather murky issue with all the "hanging chads" and supreme court intervention.

Compulsory voting is a very good idea, one which is used, more or less, in Australia, and has done wonders to keep them out of the political spotlight, but the real problem is that you can't tell how well someone will do as a President until AFTER they have served their term. Perhaps a trial presidency period... or easier impeachment rules...

Answer 4

I think that part of the problem is that voting is not accessible to poor people, who would normally vote democrat. They can't afford to take a day off from work to stand in a line at the polls for 3 hours. I was in Ohio for the 2004 election and believe that it was rigged so that conservative precincts had plenty of machines and democratic precincts didn't, creating long lines so that people couldn't vote. The person in charge of allocating the machines was Ohio's Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell (who was also the head of the "Reelect Bush" campaign in Ohio). I actually witnessed this as my voting location held voting booths for both a conservative precinct and a democratic precinct. The conservative precinct had 5 voting booths dedicated to it, while the democratic precinct had 2. Both precincts had the same number of people in them....very fishy in my opinion....

Answer 5

Over 122,000,000 American DID vote. Bush won by slightly less than 3,000,000 votes. In a free society, you can't make voting complusory. One of the reasons more don't vote is they feel disenfranchised by the political games played on both sides, plus many feel the electoral college process is out of date and unfair.

Answer 6

I did nt vote for him either time, but I think what happened is a large quantity of people who voted for him the 2nd time learned that they did not support him as he continued to let his true colors out. Where we are now is not where he promised us we'd be. Plus we did not believe that we would lose so many of our young people in Iraq. Not to mention the innocent lives lost there. That is why his approval rating went down, if we put our trust in such polls. That is me being nice. Still being nice I would like to know your knowledge of the percentage of people who "didn't vote" who are now "whining" about Bush.
In answer to your question, every American has the right to vote and every American has the right to free speech. One is not dependant on the other.

Answer 7

The voting system is based on how many citizens voted for one person in every state. For example: If the majority of Washington voted for Bush, and the majority of L.A. voted for Al Gore, than Bush wins W. and Gore wins L.A. Bush won the majority of the country. So on that note another percentage of people voted against him and is not happy with the decision.

Answer 8

Next time someone is complaining too much about President Bush, ask them why. Most people don't even know other than they have heard it from others.

I think that he has made some good choices as well as some bad ones but overall he has been a strong leader for our country.

Answer 9

He MAY have won the last election, but Florida had BOXES of votes that were NOT COUNTED in 2000, and it was sort of convenient that the "presidents" brother was the governor...
of the state that was a decideing factor in the electorial process!

I did not vote for bush nor have I voted for ANY repukelican greedy bastard.

Answer 10

The election was frauded. There is a group of interests that need a G. Bush on stand. Don't want to be followed (again ) by gov men, so I won't tell any more information about this subject.
Cheers!

Answer 11

Good question, I DID VOTE, BUT I did NOT Vote for him, if that helps. Bush got back by a retardation in the electoral college that should be eliminated.