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The United States of Florida
December 6, 2003 I listened to the democrats rant and rave in Florida at their convention about how they want "revenge" for the stolen 2000 Presidential election. Bush is an illegitimate President because they know Gore really won Florida. This is something they can't let die. They must have it continue into the next election. It may be their only hope to continue to perpetuate a lie that, if repeated often enough, the truly stupid will not give a serious thought. The fact that their claim has no basis in fact does not slow them down because they know there are vast numbers of uninformed citizens who will believe them. I wasn't aware until just this day that America consists of only one state. Apparently, Florida is the only state in the union. The rest of us, outside the sovereign borders of the United States of Florida apparently had no influence on the outcome of the election. After all, Florida was the only state that mattered in 2000. The rest of the country didn't count. We just didn't exist. There are actually 538 electoral votes in the entire 50 states and the District of Columbia. The number given to each state is based on the population of that state. Whoever wins the majority of voters in each state, wins that state's electoral votes. It's really quite simple. Our wise Founding Fathers did this to prevent one heavily populated state from just kicking around states with fewer voters. Example: New York has 33 electoral votes. California has 54. Combined, these two states have 87 votes. But winning those two states does not guarantee that a candidate will win the election as was clearly demonstrated in the last Presidential election. Indeed, if Indiana-12, Georgia-13, Missouri-11, North Carolina-14, Tennessee-11, Virginia-13 and Ohio-21 all go for the other candidate, those two large states are cancelled out by less populated states with their combined 95 electoral votes. But in the last election none of those states mattered. Utah, Wyoming, and Nebraska gave every county to Bush. In Kansas and Nevada, only one county in each state went for Gore. North Dakota gave only 2 counties to Gore. Florida has 25 electoral votes. Combined, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Nevada, and North Dakota have 26. Had Al Gore won Utah-5 or Nebraska-5, Florida would have been a mute point. Had he won Nevada-4, it would have been a tie. You see, Gore lost the election because of 5 electoral votes. Only five electoral votes separated Bush and Gore. What the democrats want everyone to believe is that those 5 votes came from Florida and nowhere else. Al Gore did something I don't believe any man running for President has done before. He lost his home state. Tennessee alone has 11 votes. Could it be that those 5 votes came from Tennessee? Could those 5 votes possibly have come from Colorado with 8 votes? How about Arizona with 8 or Alabama with 9? Why is it all five came from Florida? Democrats must have people believe that only Florida's votes mattered. Without that belief to cling to like a lifeboat on the Titanic, they would have to admit they lost the election. What they are telling the rest of America is, "You don't matter." All you smaller states, who voted in huge numbers for Bush, are unimportant. In truth, George W. Bush won 30 states out of 50. Al Gore won 20 states and the District of Columbia. When anyone tries to point this out, they start to shriek about the popular vote, which they know, on a national level, means nothing. The popular vote only matters at the state level. The democrats know this, hate this, and want to change this. It has a nasty habit of coming back and biting their heavily populated states, the states on both left coasts, in the behind to remind them they are not alone in this union. There are actually states with voting Americans in between California and New York. These big states do not rule supreme. States like Michigan that are heavily unionized can't change the outcome of the election. Those small farm states in the breadbasket still have power, and the left hates it. Many of these states don't get a single visit from democrat candidates. They just write them off as "losable" and not worth their time or money. They are just states they fly over to get from one liberal coast to the other. The next time you hear someone say, "Bush stole Florida and the election," tell them you know for a fact that the five votes Gore needed to win came from Oklahoma, and Oklahoma preferred Bush, so Gore lost. Don't be standing too close to these people when you say that because the spit as they search for a comeback will be flying all over. Just offer them a tissue, be gracious, and say, well, it could have been Mississippi or South Carolina I suppose, but Florida? Nah, Florida was just one state out of the 30 that Bush won and Al Gore didn't. Barbara Stock is an RN of over 23 years and is fairly new to political writing. She has had articles posted on BushCountry, GOPUSA, AmericanDaily, RepublicanDailyNews, Town Hall, OpinionEditorials, and the Judson Cox Newsletter. She has her own website called Republican and Proud and welcomes comments at dickens502003@yahoo.com © Copyright 2003 by Barbara Stock http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/stock/031206 Recent columns by Barbara Stock: Click here for other columns by Barbara Stock  Print this document
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