The Highland Clearances...!

Bravo Brent!!!

The electoral college is a structure that tries to balance the rights of the people and the rights of the states. The founding fathers worked hard to create such a balance in our system. Consider the elegance of our legislative branch with popular representation in the House and state representation in the Senate. Beautiful.

The fascist democratic pinheads who want to split the electoral votes in Colorado would scream bloody f#cking murder if there were an attempt to split electoral votes in California.

Most votes any president ever received!

You got to be happy about the voter turnout. What was the percentage?

Bush is also for drug testing in the Highland Games.

I hope Dubya doesn't read this, he might think you are a bunch of home O's.

Three percent of the electorate is not exactly a significant margin of victory, it may not be as miniscule as 2000, but still not exactly a mandate of "the people" thus implying that all, or even a significant majority approve.  As far as the electoral college goes it was expressly designed to keep the decision out of the hands of the people, in case they made "a mistake."  The "founding fathers" (Jefferson and Hamilton in particular) firmly believed in the virutes of Republican governments (the political structure not the political party) rather than Democratic ones.  And as far as the electoral college keeping the political decissions out of the hands of a few urban centers, that's hogwash.  Imagine the 2000 election was reversed, that Gore won by 5 electoral votes having picked up Nebraska.  Imagine that all the races in the states Gore won were decided by margins of five percent or less.  Now imagine that the states Bush won in he picked 75-80% winning by margins of 50% of the vote.  You could have had a situation in which one candidate wins the popular election by 7-8% (potentially more) but still loses in the electoral college, this system is anything but egalitarian. 

And as far as Maine goes it does split its votes, but not as a percentage of the total popular vote as Colorado proposed, each of four electoral votes is assigned to the winner of the popular election in the four congressional districts.  Essentially each district has one vote...

For the record John Kerry got the second most votes in history (about a million more than Regan in 84)

Lefty throwers unite...

It's over, the better man lost, time to move on. We in blue states, (who produce the vast majority of the wealth in this country and pay the most taxes) got soundly beaten by those in the red states (who receive the majority of the money from those taxes and complain about them). Us "liberal elite" city-slickers who were attacked
by foreign terrorists, got out-voted by the folks who're gung ho to fight a war in our name, and who still believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.

Good thing I'm not bitter!

DC, U da man. Witness.

Carlos, read my mind!- lets see "Hannity's" new one!

I guess the Extra voter turn out wasnt just Democrats but Those defending Bush also.

Fricking impotent UN. We went in taking care of business while Saddam paid off France and Russia to keep us from following up on UN threats. I think Bill Clinton "Got away with everything he could" but would love to see him replace Kofi Annan.

I am very upset at the comments about the EC... it is the best system and has provern true every time..  sincerely the Coolege football BCS...    HAHAHAHAHA  that is funny  

Actually I would have to agree with those of superior intellect above that GW whoooooooped Kerry Mushugina(sp)...  millions of votes..  In our games that would be like

Me talking all year about how I hated Vierras form and that his deciding to go to the games he usually goes to and missing the Worlds was a dis-service to the highland games and was going to lead to our games not being viewed by other sports as ligitimate(similar to Kerry being so worried about our world image and what the French and Germans think)  I would talk and second guess Vierra's decisions and how he trained for his events.  Then we get a chance to throw against eachother and Vierra wins all of the events in actual distance but I have better form or get Bruce Springsteeeeeen to sing a song for me that I should get some sort of credit.  Either way EC or popular vote GW won...  I would say that 4+ mill  would be a mandate that moral issues and security are important and it is ok to actually not be the best speaker, or debator but a leader who actually cares about his family and country over anger and self.

My 2 cents