[extropy-chat] Democracy in action!

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:24 PM 11/2/2004 -0600, I wrote:

>So it take[s] Kerry 175,753 votes to get an electoral vote, and Bush 110,428.

Before anyone gets hysterical and explains the principle of majority rule 
to me: I do understand that in principle one candidate could attract very 
nearly half the vote yet if the electorate were sufficiently homogenous 
might still gain *zero* electoral votes. But I reckon a proportional 
representation might work with less resentment from the excluded near-majority.

Damien Broderick