. . . In addition to being one of the most bizarre presidential elections in the last 124 years, this year's campaign provides an interesting and revealing look at how the popular vote breaks down for the two candidates across the country. A map of the U.S. shows a vast ocean of support for Texas Governor George W. Bush throughout almost the entire middle of the nation with narrow slivers of support for Vice President Al Gore along the northeast coast, the west coast and the Great Lakes. Bush won 29 states to Gore's 19. Bush won 2,434 counties across the U.S. to Gore's 677. The counties won by Bush cover some 2.4 million square miles with a population of 143 million people. The counties won by Gore cover some 580 thousand square miles with a population of 127 million. Another statistic offers an interesting insight. According to Hamline University Law Professor Joseph Olsen, the average murder rate per 100,000 residents in the counties won by Gore is 13.2. The murder rate in the counties won by Bush is 2.1

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Before the U.S. Supreme Court halted the recounts, election officials had begun examining thousands of ballots on which two machine counts recorded no preference for president, although choices for other offices had registered.

In an unbelievable show of conceit, Gore portrayed any ballot not having a mark or punch for the office of president as surely meaning that the intent of the voter was to vote for him. Even in the cases where voters punched any candidate other than Bush or Gore, surely those voters must have made a mistake through confusion or other-wise and really meant their vote should be registered for Gore.

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The Founding Fathers Were Students Of History And Understood Why Democracies Have Never Succeeded

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