What were the FINAL results of the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election?

[TheMojoPin]

First off, don't fuck up my thread with gay little "they can't stop whining/they stole it" shits. I want to know, because I can't seem to find a straight answer. I want two damn sets of numbers: how many Gore got and how many Bush got, after everything was said and done, absentee votes and hanging chads done and gone.

Bush won. 'Nuff said. I'm just curious.

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[HBox]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/

There you go. Gore "won" by about 500,000 votes. This is the only reason why I am pissed about 2000. I've been saying this ever since I found out about the electoral college system: Why can't we get rid of it?

EDIT: I just noticed that headline and it cracked me up.

This message was edited by HBox on 5-10-03 @ 1:37 AM

[HBox]

I was just browsing through exit polls. Bush got a whopping 9% of the African American vote. The richer somebody was, the more likely they voted for Bush. The people with the least education and the most education were more likely to vote Gore, everybody in the middle was more likely to vote Bush.

[TheMojoPin]

Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!!!

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[guttersnipe]

Please, you do NOT want to get me started on the
inanity of the electoral college. I was going off about it
for years before the 2000 election, and then I got to
tell everybody, "See? What did I tell you." One
person, one vote, my ass.

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[TheMojoPin]

Lock the damn thread. I got my answer, and I really don't feel like this becoming another "left/right" pissing match. Unless anyone else has a different set of numbers that they can back up, or HK has something to add, please turn around and walk into a door.

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[CaptClown]

Happy with the answer?

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[Death Metal Moe]

Let's recount the replies. It's hard to judge Poster Intent. Some people may have hit Edit because it was so close to reply.

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[HordeKing1]

OK. This topic has been covered before in depth. It's pretty clear that Gore won the popular vote by a relatively narrow margain, but Bush was elected president b/c of the electoral college system (and the supreme court.)

It's somewhat moot as Bush is president.

Without getting into another debate about the merits or lack therof, of the electoral college, the reason behind it is that the Founding Fathers, didn't believe the average person intelligent enough to entrust the responsibility of ellecting a president.

We refer to America as a democracy, but it is not. America is a republic.

I believe that it was Aristotle who opinied that true democracies can ony exist with a relatively small population.

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