"Martin Baxter" wrote in message

Maxprop wrote:
Yesterday's voting was at an all-time high for a presidential election.
Turnout exceeded everyone's predictions. As a matter of trivial fact,
Bush won by the greatest number of popular votes in US history as well.

These statements may well be true, but in light of an ever increasing
population a rather meaningless bit
of trivia;

It would be trivial if past presidential elections had also reflected the
population demographic. But they didn't. This year's election drew more
voters as a percentage of the total population than any other in recent
history. THAT was my point to Oz: it's why the lines at the polls were
long and time-consuming. My point had nothing to do with patting W on the
back for drawing the largest popular vote in history. But since you brought
it up . . . :-)

Max