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Not the people's choice: how to democratize American democracy.

American Prospect, The,  March, 2002  by Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

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THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DISPUTED 2000 election has thus far escaped public attention. This was an election that made the loser of the popular vote the president of the United States. But that astounding fact has been obscured: first by the flood of electoral complaints about deceptive ballots, hanging chads, and so on in Florida; then by the political astuteness of the court-appointed president in behaving as if he had won the White House by a landslide; and now by the effect of September 11 in presidentializing George W.

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