Thanks JD for the civics lesson.

-Mike Distefano

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
>[mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of JD Runyan
>Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:41 AM
>To: kclug@kclug.org
>Subject: Re: What's wrong with the market?
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>Politics aside, lets have a little civics lesson.  The popular 
>vote doesn't
>mean much.  First of all we don't count all the votes, so we 
>don't know. A
>state stops counting once the outcome is determined.  You 
>might count 2 million
>votes out of 3.5 million, and if the 2 million went to one 
>canidate, they stop.
>All of the remaining 1.5 million could go to the other 
>canidate.  Since they
>weren't counted they don't get inserted in the numbers that 
>the press reports.
>
>The constitution institutes the electoral system to determine 
>who is president.
>This protects less populated state like KS from being shoved 
>around by the more
>populated states like CA.  To win the race by the rules you 
>must win the most
>electorate, not the most votes.
>
>The supreme court may have overstepped its bounds.  I won't 
>make a comment on
>that.  The fact is after the recounts were done in FL, Bush 
>won the state, so
>the result would have been the same.  
>
>If it makes you feel better to say that Gore won the popular 
>vote, then you
>need to wake up and learn the system.  If you don't like where 
>government is,
>then try participating in the system.  Here is what you need to do.
>        1) VOTE -- most people don't, and the loudest whineres 
>in my experience
>                   never have
>        2) Become active in a political orginization that 
>supports your views
>           on policy
>        3) Run for office -- I know many on this list are too 
>young to run for
>                             national office, but many can run 
>at the state 
>                             level
>
>I get tired of the whining.  We have less than half of the 
>eligible voters
>vote, but everyone thinks they have a say.  People say the 
>government doesn't
>represent the people, and they are right.  They represent the 
>voters.  It is
>the voters who put them into office.  Canidates do not care 
>what people who
>don't vote think, because they aren't significant in there 
>quest for office.
>
>-- 
>Jason D. Runyan
>Mid-Range Systems Administrator
>USDA NITC Kansas City
>
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>On Jun 06 12:07, IOCON@aol.com wrote:
>> Umm excuse me. Al Gore won the popular vote, so I hate to 
>burst your bubble, the supreme court did put the prez  in 
>office. But I hate to use the LUG for political arguement, 
>especialy sense the topic is so important.
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