S31Ender
In fact. for two elections in a row now, the winner didn't actually win....................more people in America voted for Gore last election, but because of the whole ballot being lost and "some of them were made to look like you were voting for one but were really voting for another" thing. Not to mention that even without that problem......more people in the states overall voted for gore...............it's because of the electoral votes system that the MINORITY vote won. Sad country huh?
Spoken like a true democrat... Bush won both elections fair and square. The first time he won with the minority vote, and the second time he won with the majority vote. But both times he had the required amount of electoral votes needed to win. Total popular vote count doesn't mean anything...
Our founding fathers came up with this system, it makes the smaller states somewhat equal with the larger states. Its part of our checks and balances system, and it works. Your just pissed because your guy didn't get in.
S31Ender
Then lets start with this last one.
Can anyone say Ohio? How about almost 200,000 (90 percent of which were believed to swing to kerry's favor...which would explain why bush and gang pushed so hard for them NOT to be counted...) ballots were NOT counted. If they were counted, and even 60 percent of them were found to favor Kerry (and as I said 90 percent were thought to have been kerry votes) Kerry would have won Ohio and won the election.
Kinda like the Florida Panhandle in the 2000 Election? All the news stations called Florida 45 minutes before the polling places in the Panhandle closed. Which caused the people waiting in line to vote, leave because they though Kerry had won Florida. How could you call Florida, when its panhandle still has 45 minutes left to vote and its that close. Since the Panhandle is mostly republican, that hurt Bush's vote severly. Which is what made the race in Florida close. Check it out for yourself, go look up when Florida was called for Gore, then go look at a timezone chart. Florida is in two different time zones, which would give the panhandle longer to vote.
Anyways, about Ohio... There weren't 200,000, there were just under 155,000. Those votes weren't counted because they were cast in the wrong precincts, which sounds really fishy to me. 90% of those votes weren't believed to be for kerry, but he would need 90% of those votes to win. And since Bush won Ohio with 51.5% of the votes, its kinda hard to see how Kerry could have gotten 90% of those 155,000 votes to win.
S31Ender
Sorry my friends, but this system is screwed up. I don't like Bush. I hate him. But if he had won it fair and square I'd concede and I'd have to stand behind him. He would be the elected leader and deserves my support. But he didn't and I won't.
I'm kind of confused... You said earlier that Bush didn't win the 2000 election because he won the electorial vote and not the popular vote. YET, the same would have been with Kerry if he had won Ohio. He would have won the electorial vote and not the popular vote, so in your own words... He would have been the winner without winning. Isn't that right?
The system isn't screwed up, its you...
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Back to the GT4 discussion...
Just over 2 weeks till the NA version is released. Glad we finally have a solid release date, and I hope it isn't pushed back for some unforseen reason. Man this game is gonna rock, I hope I see some GT4 comercials for the Super Bowl, I haven't seen ANY yet...
or the 31st!!
