Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
It doesn't have to either of those. Electoral college system really complicates stuff. Florida and North Carolina are tightly contested but together have 44 electoral votes. If support changes for half a point, it may change who actually wins the elections. Remember Bush vs. Gore, where basically a couple of hundred of votes from Florida decided who was going to be the president.
Quite correct. Final recount showed a gap of well under 2k votes. Had only a few thousand persons who were TRUE left wingers voted Gore instead of Bush, then the 21st century would be a good bit different.