How did Bush win when he didnt get the most votes?

Question

i herd Bush lost the popular vote how did he win?and why do we alow it here?

Answer 1

For some reason most people have a misconception we live in a democracy and its even stated time and time again by people that our "brand of democracy is failing", when it isn't even democracy. Our government isn't and never was intended to be a democracy, it was intended to be a Republic. We elect representatives to speak on behalf of the people, where-in as a democracy the people vote on everything. The reason the electoral college is in place is to safe guard the people's interest. If the people are swooned by a candidate and we elect him into office and the next day he turns out to be a communist, the electoral college can turn the vote around. It's how a Republic works.

Answer 2

The president is elected by the electoral college. Each state has a certain number of electoral votes based on that states population. The higher the population of a state, the more electoral votes that state receives. Bush won because he got the most electoral votes even though he lost the popular vote.

Answer 3

In the US we use the electoral college and there is a very good reason for this. It encourages those running for the president to campaign in all the states for their votes this makes it very important to pay attention to a less populated state like N.H. as well as California. If it was just pure popular vote the candidates would campaign in California, NY, Texas, Florida since half of the country population resides in these 4 states all the other states would just be fly over country.

Answer 4

If you will check your Almanac i think you will find that George W Bush legally and confirmably received a majority of the Electoral votes in both elections. That is why (thank God for small favors) he is President instead of Al Gore or John Kerry.

Answer 5

Same way Clinton lost the popular vote in 1992, but still won the electoral vote. Why do we allow it? Because the only ones who ever complain about it are the ones who's man didn't get elected. You know.. like you're doing now... and like I did in 1992...

Answer 6

Its true Bush lost the populer versus Al Gore, though he won the last popular vote against Kerry by app. 3 million votes.

Answer 7

Bush lost the popular vote, but our country elects its President by the Electoral College. Essentially, each state has a set amount of "votes" proportional to its population, and depending on how the Electoral College votes, one side or another gets 270 or more "votes" to win. It's a very outdated and useless system, but it's going to stay there because it benefits the Republocrats and Demicans. It's rigged for a "two-party" setup, not for multiple parties. It's not like we really have a democracy here, anyways. Hell, the Supreme Court decided to arbitrarily end the vote-count in Florida in 2000 and just declare Bush the winner, yet a full recount says Gore would've won.

Diebold, maker of electronic voting machines, is run by some guy in Ohio, Ken Blackwell I think. He outright stated that he'd do his damnedest to see Republicans win in his state. Diebold machines have been proven to be so easily hackable, there's even a video on the internet of a monkey fixing the numbers. Seriously, google "monkey vote machine hack video". It's blatantly obvious to anyone with even the most basic programming experience that Diebold purposely built in the vulnerability to make it easy to rig elections. Our government has been sold out to the highest bidder for decades.

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josh m: Sorry, telling me to "get over it" doesn't excuse the flagrant violations of elections law and the Constitution. So what if the Dems stole votes? There's no difference between dems and repubs, you're all one big party sold out to corporate special interests and foreign governments. Ken Blackwell's stated support of the Republican party was public knowledge back then, and the fact Diebold rigged their machines to be easily hackable is more than obvious. They make ATM machines that don't spit out its entire stock of $20s just by sticking in a special card, yet their voting machines can be rigged by inserting a special card into a special slot and resetting whatever totals to whatever numbers you want. In Florida, they knocked 20,000 people off the voting rolls over fake "felony disqualifications", mainly in heavily Democratic neighborhoods. Republicans were caught on the news intimidating voters away from the polls. Hell, a few precints had impossible voting totals that came out to thousands more votes than the amount of people in that precint! In 2004, heavy Dem areas in swing states were sent fewer voting machines so as to discourage people from voting. You can't tell me that's not a concerted effort by one side to rig the vote. If you still want to keep your head in the sand, have the balls to say so.

Sam: sorry, no. The electoral college does NOT have the power to "fix it" if we suddenly elect a turncoat pinko Commie. What stops any of our current leaders from turning Communist tomorrow under the Electoral College? NOTHING WHATSOEVER. Keep drinking the kool-aid, and eventually you'll OD on stupid. :\

Answer 8

The electoral votes elect the President. sometimes the candidate who gets the most electoral votes doess not receive the most popular votes.

Answer 9

it may in all probability much less dramatic than it grew to become into while Bush gained in 2004. i in my view needed Bush to be voted out and that i grew to become into very bummed while the yank human beings certainly gave him yet another 4 years. I strongly help Obama in this election. yet i'm unlikely to cry or get depressed if McCain ought to win.

Answer 10

well its because we live in a REPUBLIC and not a democracy like we like to believe. "to the republic for which it stands..."(pledge of allegiance) the electoral college is a republic voting system based on populations of your specific states. so yes sadly enough if we lived in a true democracy we wouldnt have had to put up with his idiocy for all these years