Practice is not the same as theory, however, which is where the problem comes in. It's actually perfectly feasible for the US variant of an "election" to be a convention of the College, Sans vote, and they choose POTUS without that. It's impossible to create that now, but it's how things worked up to the second Adams Administration.
Except that you can't ignore that Gore's miscalculations here illustrate what a bad candidate Gore was, far more than it illustrates what a good one Shrub was. An election where one guy can and does get more votes than the other should never come down to four counties. It's fashionable nowadays to look for insane conspiracies to avoid facing the obvious, but Jeb Bush has as much to do with the outcome of the 2000 election as ACORN did with 2008. That is none outside a select group of people incapable of fathoming that the other guy *can* in fact win an election if the choice comes down to a bad candidate v. a terrible one.
In one state that would not have been the focus of any such conspiracy even if it had existed.
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Except that you can't ignore that Gore's miscalculations here illustrate what a bad candidate Gore was, far more than it illustrates what a good one Shrub was. An election where one guy can and does get more votes than the other should never come down to four counties. It's fashionable nowadays to look for insane conspiracies to avoid facing the obvious, but Jeb Bush has as much to do with the outcome of the 2000 election as ACORN did with 2008. That is none outside a select group of people incapable of fathoming that the other guy *can* in fact win an election if the choice comes down to a bad candidate v. a terrible one.
In one state that would not have been the focus of any such conspiracy even if it had existed.