President Bush will leave one important legacy. Not the high gas prices or the blunder in Iraq. His mismanagement of this country has galvanized voters to vote.

People who have never considered voting important, which in my eyes is ridiculous, are getting motivated to vote this election. Arizona is almost at 80 percent voters ready to vote this election. Elsewhere the registrations are up also.

For once the system may work like it is supposed to work, for the people by the people

Halleluja!

you mean Americans will actually take time off from watching American Idol and go vote? I'm impressed!

hopefully they won't republican. if they do we would be with the same crap for another four years.

That's a scarey thought, isn't it?

If the popular vote winner actually won? I might agree with you. I do think it's a good thing people are voting, but we all know that's not the problem. I waited in line two hours in the rain at the last election, as I live in a swing state. But the majority... the total majority... the one who earns that doesn't always get to win.

I disagree. Voter turnout statistically has no correlation with voter registration. If you look at voter registration over the past couple election cycles, you'll see that the percentage of younger people (18-24) as registered voters has gone down, and while voter turn out has indeed gone up in the aggregate, the numbers don't necessarily signal some sort of overwhelming electoral shift.

What should be talked about as more important is that more people have registered as independent over the last 16 years than in the last half century.

And finally, this isn't a democracy, this is a Republic. We don't want the "popular vote" to dictate the status quo--that's called tyranny of the majority, and our founders warned us of it many times in their writings.

If we had had a "popular vote" determining everything throughout most of U.S. history when it came to key issues such as the Revolution, slavery, the Civil War, World War II and Civil Rights, our country would not have even survived into the present day. The popular vote is a good thing to have for insurance, but it has proven itself to cause much more problems than it solves. This is why we have a Constitution.

I reviewed the electoral college for this phenomenon and if IF ALL voters in each state vote then the electoral college will work which in turn will make the president voted by popular vote.
The reason the electoral doesn't work as we would like is the voter turn out is low.

This is exactly my point. The last thing America needs is more dumb Americans voting. If anything, I'd encourage LESS stupid people to vote, and MORE informed people to cast ballots.

Such is the two-edged sword of a free society, I suppose.