au1929 wrote:John Webb
There are no constitutional reasons for postponing an election. The electorate will decide who the next president shall be and based on today's climate it will be Georgie boy. Hopefully that will change. However, it will still be decided by the electorate, those that vote. And we will have to live with the outcome and it's consequences, whatever it may be.
My two cents. The 2000 election, flawed as it was, did happen. And
according to the laws of the land, GWB was deemed the winner.
Yeah, Gore won the popular vote, but that's not how it's done. GWB won the electoral college.
Much has been made of the Florida results, as no doubt we all do remember, and
should remember. But it only really galls the dissapointed because of the Governor of Florida's relation to the eventual winner.
It isn't that Bush won. Gore lost. Had Al Gore carried his own home state the Florida debacle would be a footnote in history.
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In any event, the election of 2000 was decided without bloodshed. The election of 2004 will happen on schedule.