At 11:45 AM 11/28/00 +0000, Ken Brown wrote: ....
Which is exactly what the current US situation looks like to most people outside the US. It presumably seems different to the Americans themselves (or at least the Republican voters amongst them), but to the rest of us the whole thing cuts heavily at Bush's credibility
Oh, my - you're saying that Bush has *credibility* in the rest of the world? :-) This reminds me more of the tail-wagging-the-dog situations that parliamentary systems get into when some minor religious party or right-wing-wackos or the Monster Raving Loonie party gets to tell the bigger party what to do because they need three more seats for their coalition. Too bad Florida has a winner-takes-all system - under proportional representation they'd have been done weeks ago, with one electoral vote for Nader, 12 for Gore, and 12 for Bush, and that would fairly accurately reflect the opinions of Florida's voters, unlike the current situation where the margin of error in the counts is much wider than the difference between the totals. And it's not even available as a compromise, because Gore's in the lead without the Florida votes, so that would give him the election. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639