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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
The 2000 presidential election was decided by 537 votes in the state of Florida.
Bush: 2,912,790
Gore: 2,912,253
If another 538 people had voted for Gore, he would have won the electoral college, and we most likely would have never started the Iraq war, which has killed millions and is estimated to have cost the United States over 6 trillion dollars before all is said and done.
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First of all, the only reason people even remember that is because it was an anomaly. So few votes having any real impact on a national election was so unheard of that people flipped their **** over it.
Secondly, that election was decided by the Supreme Court. Not to mention that Gore won the popular vote, but lost the electoral college, making JWB's point about the EC still stand.
And thirdly, when it comes to engaging in wars, the only seeming difference between Democratic and Republicans presidents is that the former seem to drag their feet for longer. When it comes to foreign policy and dropping bombs, the two parties are even more similar than domestic policy.