Electoral Politics

If you guys are upset that Al Gore is endorsing me, attack me, don’t attack Al Gore. Al Gore worked too hard in 2000 to lose that election, when he really didn’t lose the election. He got 500,000 votes more than George Bush. And I don’t think he deserves to be attacked by anybody up here. - Howard Dean

I am not going to endorse anyone, but I am going to make a pledge. I will not vote for any candidate who says Al Gore won the 2000 Election. Like it or not, the Electoral College has decided every election since 1788. The system worked exactly as intended.

It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture. It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations. - Thomas Jefferson

If you don’t like it, go ahead and try to change it.

The Constitution give states the power to decide how they will assign electors. This gives states the power to make changes without having to go to Washington to pass a constitutional amendment. - Michael Van Winkle

But get your facts straight.

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Electoral Politics

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"If he hadn't lost, he would have won."

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