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i don't understand the george bush thing and i dont want to ask google. real people give better, straightfoward answers

ok so

- he was running against al gore
- he is a republican whose father was pres before him, george bush senior

why did he win? did he get more electoral votes? i though al gore got more popular votes?

what is your personal opinion of him?

Popular vote doesn't get you elected. Having 270 electoral votes does- however the popular vote determines whether you get those electoral votes. So let's say in Minnesota Bush gets more votes- the electoral college of Minnesota from the Republican party casts however many electoral
votes they have for Bush. The electoral votes are the number of Representatives in the House for a state.

Al Gore (the stupid asshole that he is and people have the audacity to call Bush an idiot when Gore is quoted as saying that "I invented the internet" and "A Zebra can't change it's spots"....real great alternative) won more of the popular vote but didn't get the vote in the heavy electoral college states that really matter. The Supreme Court decided to give the remaining electoral votes to the current President.

The electoral college was set up exactly for this reason- so that ignorant, uninformed people don't have the direct say in who the President is and that a cast of electors do.

Now you said better, straightforward answers so here's mine-

What do I think of him? I don't agree with everything he does- but I am a lot more savvy than to fall for the picture that the liberal media paints of him and let them do my thinking for me. I read the very right wing NY Post everyday as well as the moderate/kinda left Wall Street Journal as well. So we have a street smart paper that people call trash because it tells the truth and a more respectable paper. Liberals never let you know how good the economy is doing or how the unemployment rate is at an all time low just because he's Republican, has a set of balls and tells them to fuck off. Hate him or love him- you gotta respect the fact that he has a pair.

But you know what they say...a liberal is a liberal until they get mugged.

or my personal favorite from Winston Churchill-

"If you aren't liberal by the time you're 25; you have no heart and if you're not conservative by the time you're 35; you have no brain."

So liberals go can live in their quixotic anti war hippy American flag burning world where everyone gets along by "Diplomacy" until they wake up and take a dose of real life.

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