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First of all, you don't answer my main objection to your article, that the 2000 elections were flawed as well. That was another instance where the best polling minds in the world called the election for Al Gore. When the dust settled, the guy with fewer votes managed to get into office
Simply not true. Most polls showed a pretty easy Bush win in 2000 up until the final weekend when (a) the ancient Bush DUI story was magicaly rediscovered (talk about political dirty tricks and press complicty!) and (b) Gore went on a major campaign swing while Bush got complacent and stopped campaigning.
As for the second half, that's the way our Founding Father's set it up--in short, it's purely Constitutional. And we should praise their foresight and wisdom: otherwise every president would be elected by the citizens of New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, L.A. and San Franciso, and that's not representative democracy.
