From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 22:29:03 MDT
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:06:28AM -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Lee Corbin wrote,
> > To try to link the concepts makes
> > about as much sense as trying to suggest that Democrats are
> > more in favor of democracies while Republicans prefer republics.
>
> Do you doubt this? Why do you think that Democratic Presidents are elected
> while Republican Presidents are appointed?
>
> (Ducking....) :-)
*grin*
More seriously, I'll note that after the 2000 election I saw Republican web
fora with people thanking the Founders that we weren't a true democracy where
the popular weight of the corrupt Democratic coastal cities would swamp the
voice of the true American God-fearing and increasingly depopulated heartland.
Defending the electoral college against the charge of "look, no matter how you
count Florida, Gore got more actual votes".
I do not claim that this is representative, or that had the popular and
electoral votes each tilted the other way that both sides might not have been
playing the opposite tunes. Although I'd like to think I'd have had the grace
to be a bit ashamed of Gore's in that case.
-xx- Damien X-)
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