If Kerry 'does a Bush' and wins the Electoral College despite loosing the popular vote, will there be more demand for a change in the rules? And if this voting anomaly happens, will Republicans out there promise not to gripe about it!
Republicans would have griped endlessly about this it had happened to them in 2000...you would hear about it on every conservative talk radio show everyday for four years, terrorism or not.
But they can't really gripe about it if it happens in 2004.
I'm amazed there wasn't more effort to change the system after 2000. Probably due to the fact that the electoral college problem was overshadowed by the vote-counting problems and all the court action. If it happens in 2004, I think there will be more momentum to change things, but not enough to actually do it.