56. Ever notice tha the whole "republic, not a democracy" meme
kicked in around 2000... never heard it used in popular rhetoric until AFTER the election.
Indeed, if I recall, the rightwing was expecting the opposite result - that bush would win popular but lose the electoral college - and that they were preparing arguments to overturn such a situation. Thus the quick and handy meme.... prepared as the counter argument. Ten to One that if the results they had anticipated as a possible outcome had occured - the meme we would have heard for the past 4 years would have been the exact opposite... about us being a democracy, not a republic.
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