"GregP"

"Fletis Humplebacker"

But today, the Republican party wins by intentionally cultivating
division - by encouraging disdain of Easterners, liberals, and
intellectuals,


That's got more spin than a class 4 hurricane. It's a fact that the
NE is heavily liberal and vote accordingly. They are out of step
with the rest of the country so pointing it out isn't the division,
the division was already there.


That makes a second hurricane. Almost 56M people voted for
Kerry. The people on the other side of the division line add up
to more than NEders.



No one said they only lived there.



Something that should concern all of us is that Kerry could have
won the election while being down more than 3M votes, and that
is in spite of our federal system that gives more weight to voters
in Bush states such as Wyoming. If that had happened, a lot of
people would have been justifiably angry. Some thought should
be given to that to see whether we should try to avoid such a
situation in the future.


I happen to agree that the electoral college is the best solution
so I wouldn't change it. The voting machines, system, etc may
need a bit of tweaking. And I'd be for doing away with exit polling
or reporting results before the rave is called and maybe polling
anywhere near a voting establishment.