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Originally Posted by Muncle
An aside ~ in Oct, 2000, the DNC expected Al Gore to wine the electoral vote but quite possibly get fewer votes nationwide than George Bush. They had prepared a media onslaught stressing the validity of the electoral college and denigrating any importance of a "popular vote."
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Personally, I find the electoral college appropriate. The USA is still a confederation of 50 separate countries (states) bound by mutual treaty into federal republic. The Founding Fathers argued long and hard for this concept of government which provides for local independence and national unity simultaneously. We should be that smart!
As far as global warming is concerned, if the proponents of natural climatic shift are right, then the planet is simply recovering from the traumatic effects of its ice age (still believed by many due to meteor strike) and will eventually revert to its "natural" state. Have to admit there is logic to that argument....
There is also logical rebuttal from those who say mankind's pollution of the atmosphere is "warming" the planet.
So, perhaps the real question is - what should the actual climate/temp of this planet be ? ? ? and why ? ? ?