It's no secret that gore won the popular vote. isnt it funny that the state the won it for bush was the one where his campagin manager was in charge of vote keeping and his brother was governor. You can look it up anywhere gore won the popular vote. he won the election the people elected gore but daddy bush's friends on the supreme court didnt. why cant they exept that?
2007-08-01 10:22:25 · 20 answers · asked by patsfan 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Clinton won the popular vote and the electoral vote twice. dued where did you get that.
2007-08-01 10:39:07 · update #1
Considering the fact that 25% of America still think Bush is "doing a good job" I wouldn't hold my breath.
Republican voters are typically a little slow on the uptake.
2007-08-01 10:27:01 · answer #1 · answered by Jason 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Note that there were no complaints about the electoral college until my side lost (Democratic). You may be too young (not an insult) to remember that President Clinton went through the same nonsense when he LOST the popular vote but won on the electoral college. Some Republicans (not all, most were sane about it) whined about him really losing and what a bad idea the electoral college.
Like this time, I didn't see any of them complaining BEFORE the voting, only after their candidate lost.
Gore lost the election. He won the popular vote. He isn't and shouldn't have been President, any more than Clinton should have lost when it happened to him.
In addition, there's the official counts to consider (you might want to recheck the more modern numbers) and the fact that illegal acts keep happening on the recounts so that the court finally had to stop the selective recounting that was occurring. That's public record. It had nothing to do with President Bush's brother, etc., except that that was picked as a good point of attack by my party (what more obvious place to call into question!)
We made Florida the issue, they didn't.
You need to leave this behind you. It just looks silly. It doesn't help us.
2007-08-01 10:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When will people understand the electoral college was created by the democrats and the first time a close call works against them the crying started. It has gone on for 7 years and all it accomplished is prove how hard it is to get a lib to admit defeat. It is not important what the popular vote was. Face the music and get on with the next dance.
2007-08-01 10:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by mr conservative 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Are you for actual ! If Gore grew to become into President then he might nonetheless be at floor 0 immediately thinking what to do. Btw, the "Gore quite gained" is fairly, quite getting older. Technically, legally, and by using all recounts Bush gained Florida and the Electoral college.
2016-10-09 00:18:50 · answer #4 · answered by manjeet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh, the popular vote does not matter! Heard of the Electoral College?
For Christs sake it was 7 years ago.
Give it a rest!
Why cant you ACCEPT that?
Try spell check every once in a while will ya.
2007-08-01 10:30:13 · answer #5 · answered by swissrmeman 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Anyone that has study history and that understands the electoral college knows that this is not the first time that the winner of the election lost the popular vote. This was not even the most extreme case.
2007-08-01 10:27:24 · answer #6 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Al Gore: b b b b but I won the Popularrrrrr vote
America: um, Al? We go by electoral votes, remember?
Al Gore: b b but I want to be Pressssssidenttttttttttttttttt!!!
America: sit down and shut up, Al
2007-08-01 10:31:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
We here in the U.S.A. have a strange voting system, you need electoral votes, not popular votes. Therefore it is possible ,and it has happened in the past, that one candidate can win while having less poplular votes.
Maybe the Democrats should get all the crack smokers to vote this time around, they are all democrats...
2007-08-01 10:28:32 · answer #8 · answered by Alec with a C 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Why cant Democrats and someone like "you" accept the fact that Bush won the 2000 election?
2007-08-01 10:26:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
if you watch Fahrenheit 911 you will see bushes cousin or brother i cant remember ridged the election for bush 2 become the head honcho himself and become the president
-democrat
2007-08-03 07:26:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep your eye on the future, the past is gone. Don't cry over spilled milk, just make sure you go out and vote.
2007-08-01 10:42:35 · answer #11 · answered by mstrywmn 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋