Jim,

Two seperate issues.  Voting irregularities should be investigated and
if the evidence supports the charge, the perpetrators should be
charged.  Even Jeb deserves due process, (barely and only to protect my
right to due process).

Popular vote?  That's a great idea.  If you are from Texas, Florida,
California or New York.  No problem for you, you'll have all them
politicians listening to your polls and visiting every nook and crany
of your steaming cities.  And so damned efficient too!  Think of the
cost savings.  Don't have to pay any attention to them folks out in the
wilderness.  Hell!  We could have a National Real Estate Tax...you guys
in the cities would like that!  And your farmers with their cute little
200 acre plots would be competitive again!  You've got the house of
representatives...enough is enough!

Disenfranchisement is a bad idea, doesn't matter where it happens.  The
popular vote eliminates any reason for politicians to know what is
going on outside of a dozen most populated states.  Things like that
cause problems.

-jc


On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 05:02  AM, Jim Hicks wrote:

> It would help if you were able to add better than I can spell. I vote
> in NY and the State was carried by the Dem dummy. In any case Demdumb
> won the pop vote, he just lost in Fla where blacks were purged from
> the voting reg six months before the election and on election day in
> many black counties there were road blocks leading to the polls (plus
> all of the other voting eregularities which the supreams said that
> just this one time we're going to chose)and in any case the "Southern
> Stradegy" has worked very well and is very alive in the grand ole > sout.
> jh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ralph Walter
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Iraq response & Constitution
>
> In a message dated 2/19/2003 6:15:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Actually, I hate them all except maybe Nader. I'm a reg Dummy much to
> my shame.
>
>
>
> What you SHOULD be ashamed of is supporting Nader and thereby electing
> Dubya.
>
> Ralph
>