On Thu, 09 Aug 2001 biokeefe@yahoo.com wrote

> But still, it rankles that Gore got the popular vote, and Bush
> the electoral.That makes me angry every time I think of it.
> How can we, the US, call ourselves a proper democracy?More
> like a capitalist pawn....

The US is a Republic, not a Democracy.

Man, I thought that the discussion was supposed to center around Ranma 1/2