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● You can make out a pretty strong case as to why the Electoral College should be abolished by considering two people from the 2000 election — George W. Bush and Barbara Lett-Simmons. Let’s start with the well-known name. As everyone knows, the 2000 presidential election was won by Al Gore — that is, Gore got more votes than any other candidate and surely, therefore, ‘won’ the election. Democrat Al Gore polled just over 51 million votes while his Republican opponent, Governor George W. Bush, polled only 50.4 million votes. But, as a result of the vagaries of the Electoral College system, Governor Bush became president because he won more Electoral College votes than Gore: 271 to 267. The popular vote loser won. This was not the first time this had happened.
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