USA Election '08: Rigging?

[Bursche]

Wow biased much?

"In the long, hot autumn of 2000, the world was shocked by the contempt for democracy shown by the Republican Party. They knew their man had lost the popular vote to Al Gore by half a million votes. They knew the majority of voters in Florida itself had pulled a lever for Gore. But they fought -- amid the confetti of hanging chads -- to stop the state's votes being counted, and to ensure that the Supreme Court imposed George W. Bush on the nation."

This right here is where I totally blew off this man's opinion. Our political system is based off of the electoral votes, not popular. People need to realize this. This is how it has always been and most likely always will be. He makes it seem like the Republicans stole the election when all they did was try not to waste everyone's time in Florida by recounting everyone's votes. It was stupid to hold a recount.

As well, I dont agree with the Republicans campaigning a distributive system in California, but that is for the Californians to decide upon. His system of a true popular vote will not only make it even more impossible for a 3rd party to ever rise in this country, but make it impossible for a 2 party system to dominate as the winner of the popular vote will win EVERYTHING, no electoral votes whatsoever. NOt to mention will not scale things back in favor of smaller states, who will be screwed because their votes wont matter nearly as much. They will be underrepresented.

Our country was based upon this, and while you may argue that a popular system might be better, what happened in 2000 is a very rare case. Get over it.

And why does someone in Britain want to change our election system more like theirs? Let the Americans decide what America wants.