If you look at the whole country's votes, Gore had 539,947 more popular votes than Bush. However, he isn't our president. What happpened to "Of the People, by the People, for the People"?? The people in our country voted for Al Gore to be president, and the people's decision was not upheld.
Please don't take this as me being a sore loser for Gore not winning. I don't think either Al Gore or George Bush Jr. were a good candidate for president in 2000. I would've been just as upset had the same thing happened, with the candidates in opposite positions.
What about all those people who say "you can't make a difference unless you vote", or "if you didn't vote, you can't complain about what happened"? Tell that to the majority of the US voting public who voted for their president (Gore), and were denied. This is proof. My vote does not make a difference, and the election of 2000 just proved that.
The Electoral College was established in early America, because a large percentage of it's citizens were illiterate, and there was no widespread, instantaneous transfer of information. In modern times, where we have a 97% literacy rate, and high-speed data sharing (satellite news, radio, internet) to spread ideas about the candidates, it's time to get rid of the antiquated notion of the Electoral College, and let the citizens of this country decide who they want their leader to be.