Completely OT : Cannes, Mickael Moore and the Iraq War

[Fyron]

You say Bush didn't get a majority?. Well them I'm sorry but it doesn't sound as if your democracy is organised correctly. At least in accordance to my idea of it.

Actually... the electoral college system in the US is set up to provide checks and balances for the minority (low population states) against dictatorship by the majority (high population states). This ranges from electing the President to the composition of the Congress. As Mephisto said, such checks and balances are needed in a democracy... this was how the people that set up the government of the US balanced it. That, and it was the only way to get the small states and large states to agree to be part of the same union and not have two separate nations after the secession from the British empire...