[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[Kevin Freels]

I felt the same way when Clinto was president with his 43% victory in a
three-way race. At least Bush has a majority. :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samantha Atkins" <sjatkins at mac.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville


> 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
>
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