At 1:07 AM -0500 13/12/00, Issodhos @aol.com wrote:

>   And like most party propagandists it is your desire to manipulate and
>deceive the gullible.  Your reference to winning a popular vote, as though
>that held any relevance in a presidential election, is meant to indicate that
>some type of chicanery took place in order to defeat the sad sack selected by
>Party Democrat to represent your utterly corrupt party's desire to maintain
>power.

Have I misunderstood the US electoral system? I thought a political
party's presidential candidate was chosen by anyone who wanted to
register as a supporter of that party, rather than by actual party
members. As I understand it, that means that supporters of one party
could even register as supporters of another party, to help install
an incompetent as the opposition candidate.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas