If the results didn't matter so much, one might say this whole Florida debacle could be considered highly amusing. But the results do matter, and that is what the fuss has been about. No one could have predicted the spectacle to which the whole world now bears witness. One might think that the framers of the U. S. Constitution could have come up with a better plan for an orderly transition of power. Their only problem was that they too couldn't agree.
Popular opinion is subject to whim.
To allay their own fears, the framers got the States involved in the process by creating an Electoral College . Each State gets to present a slate of Electors to the Electoral College. The actual date set for that election is December 18, 2000. Our system of government was deliberately designed with checks and balances so no one branch of government could overtake the other. No one said our democracy was perfect.