Re: Haven't we had enough

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From: Annie Keitz
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 00:00

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cheld@bosnet.net (Charles Held) wrote:
>=Artie_Turner wrote:
>=> 
>=> Ernie Englehart wrote:
>=> 
>=> > It's time to do away with the electoral college and elect the President
>=> > based on popular vote.  Then the power to elect will be placed back into
>=> > the hands of the voters, who could write in the man that they REALLY want
>=> > to be their President.
>=> 
>=> Just for the record, Einstein, no President has ever been elected by the
>=> electoral college that didn't win the majority of the popular vote.

>This is incorrect.  I believe it was Andrew Jackson who won the electoral vote 
>without winning the popular.

Not wishing to comment on the political content of this thread, but I
would like to comment that Rutherford B. Hayes became president
without winning a majority of votes to challenger William Tilden.
Neither gained the 270 electorial votes needed and a "bipartisan" (in
really crooked, but that's another story...) panel of Democrats and
Republicans made a decision on whether or not to allow disputed
electorial votes from some southern states to be allowed.

Also in the Election of John Quincy Adams was decided by the House of
Representatives, stealing the election from Andrew Jackson who had won
a plurality of votes.

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From: keitz@his.com (Annie Keitz)
Subject: Re: Haven't we had enough
Date: 1996/11/01
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