[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[Samantha Atkins]

Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 02:33 AM 11/8/2004 -0800, Samantha wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:14:24 +0100, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> > Olga, I couldn't agree more on what you say here, but the fact is, 
>> he has won.
>>
>> He squeaked by.  Unfortunately in this country it is winner (no matter
>> by how slim a margin) take all.
>
>
> When you're voting for President, what method would you prefer? Surely 
> not *loser* take all? (That was 2000, same guy, right?) Surely not 
> rotating chairs during the period of office? Or abolishing the office 
> entirely in favor of a committee?
>

I have no easy solution.  However pretending that GW Bush represents me 
or nearly 50% of Americans who voted against him is abhorrent as hell.

-samantha