America Now
...on and concluded that even if all the votes had been recounted Bush would have emerged with 493 more votes than Gore. Thus emerged our second problem, Bush won the presidency with 500,000 less votes than Gore. That is where the electoral college played in. The way it sets it up is that every state is worth points based on their population, so that a state like Florida has more electoral votes than our own state, Kentucky. This makes it possible to win the election, without winning the popular vote. This wasn’t the only problem. I’m sure every one of you know or saw on TV what happened on September 11th. 4 Planes were hijacked within the country, 2 being flown into the world trade center, or also known as the twin towers, 1 being flown into the pentagon, and 1 crashed in Pennsylvania. This sent shock and fear to the entire country, that I think many of us have forgotten. If you go to september11victims.com you see that we lost 2,996 people that day, one of the bloodiest for America. They not only took those lives, they took America’s twin towe...