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Originally Posted by Billcat
Why my fellow Americans would choose to vore for G.W. Bush is a mystery to many of us over here as well. Please do not forget that there are huge numbers of Americans who did not vote for him - in fact, in 2000, there were more who voted for Mr. Gore!
Perhaps even more of a mystery is how Yale, which ususally produces some very bright grads, managed to give W a degree.  |
As you well know, we have a little something called the electoral college. There have been 4 presidents who were elected without a plurality of popular votes, (including John Quincy Adams and Geoge W. Bush). Eleven have been elected without a majority of popular votes - including Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, (twice), Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, (twice). So what's your point?
President Bush earned a BA degree from Yale in 1968 and an MBA from Harvard in 1975, (the only U.S. president to have one of those, by the way). Neither institution is known for giving out degrees as if they were candy.