Wow, my brain hurts from reading through this thread. All I know is that Bush won (sadly in my opinion(yay for all you republicans), but i'm not going to set myself on fire in front of the white house because of it.
Oh by the way, who ever said we didn't live in a democracy was kind of wrong. We don't live in a direct democracy, but our government is a representative democracy. Just thought i'd throw that out there for kicks and giggles.