<HTML>"By pulling in huge numbers of poor and disadvantaged voters.... [Gore] was able to pull a nearly equal number of 'VOTES'... Most of America... by a huge majority... was behind Bush then."
While now is not the time to argue politics or criticize the President, I find it disturbing to note that you consider the poor and disadvantaged to be less human than the rich. The votes of all Americans are equal, and that is a key principle of American freedom, the freedom that terrorists hate so much. Once anyone begins to say that those who are poor, or those who live in cities (New York City was 85% for Gore) do not count as coequal citizens with Republicans, then America will have lost the fundamental bedrock on which its democratic Republic was built: that all men are created equal. In fact, Gore won the popular vote by 500,000 votes.
All of this is irrelevant though; I just could not let stand the fallacy that somehow the poor and the urban-dwellers are less than equal citizens to those who sleep in suburbs and toil on empty farms. In America, all citizens face "equal justice under law;" this is what terrorists seek to destroy. We must not let that happen.
Jason</HTML>
