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Originally posted by Blackeagle
As to his comments at the Oscars, I see his web site's forum has been down ever sense.
I suspect he has found out that he was rather wrong about the number of people in this country that support the Presidant.
Some might like to read his letter to Pres. Bush at his site. It just helped confirm my oppinion of him as a idiot with rather extreme veiws. After reading that letter his Oscar night comments were no surprise.
www.michaelmoore.com
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Well, my class studied the presidental election when Bush got elected. If i'm not mistaking myself USA uses the system that if a state has 2million people and 1,1million votes for President A then president A "wins" that state and if he get most states he becomes the president, right? The somewhat obscene thing about that to me is that a president can win loads of states and still have a majority of people who doesn't support him. I don't know how you guys who live in the USA and who has always lived with the system feels about it. But to me it feels more logical that you would count all the votes in all states and the president who has the largest support from the people wins. If I have mistaken myself in the "who to become a president" system works in the USA, please do feel free to correct me.
I believe Moore's intention of the speech was to in an ironic way get the attention of people, so that they realize how "weird" things can be and that you should never be naive when it comes to the ways of electing president of the worldst most powerful country and war.
Edit: Just to clearify it, I don't support Gore either or think that he should have been elected. I'm just intrested in the election system.