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He also took presedency when there were more votes by the population for Al Gore.
Stupid electoral college.
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As much as I dislike our little retarded monkey of a President, that fact can be misleading. If you look at a map that shows the cities/counties/something that voted for Bush and the ones that voted for Gore, you'll see that many, many, many more voted for Bush. Gore was stupid and only concentrated on campaigning in heavily-populated states. He didn't even visit his home state (Tennessee)--not even once--but Bush campained here numerous times (I don't remember the number, but it was more than I would have guessed).
So if the population vote was all that was used, it's quite possible that all the future candidates would try to only concentrate on large cities and basically neglect everywhere else. So yeah... we need the electorial college for fair representation.