I love Michael Moore, but he's wrong on this one. To equate the reasoned deliberations of the founders with the yahoos who passed crazy civil regulation laws, does the former a grave disservice. They knew what they were doing. You can't change it just because your guy didn't win. If the situation were reversed, as it was much more likely to have been the predicted outcome, lefties all over the country would have shrugged their shoulders and said, "Hey, that's the breaks. Gotta respect the Constitution, eh, right wingers?" Gore knew he wasn't running on the popular vote. That he might lose is entirely his fault, and not a subversion of the will of the people. But God I hope a couple electors get a conscience attack...
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