Junk the Electoral College. Whoever wins the most votes in the entire country should win, period. It's dated, creaky - and bigoted As we await results from the Florida recount, two things should be clear. First, if George W. Bush, having apparently lost the popular vote, does indeed win at least 270 electoral votes when the Electoral College meets, he is the lawful winner who played by the Constitution's rules and won. No system is foolproof or perfect or absolutely fair.
Life is a sloppy, slippery, disorganized business - politics even more so.
No, the future The close presidential contest illustrates the triumph of the test-marketed candidacy Amid the flood tide of punditry spewing forth in the wake of last Tuesday's bizarre electoral result, two rhetorical gambits, in particular, seem to keep recurring. Hollywood's really twisted messages Hollywood needs to stop marketing sex and violence to our nation's children. I'm young enough to have felt the full force of Hollywood's marketing machine. By the time I entered high school, I had seen countless murders on the screen. I had seen women degraded and family values mocked.