With the help of my brother, the Governor of Florida, and my
father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after
losing by over 500,000 votes.

Wrong!


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Actually, the number is a bit higher.

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With the help of my brother, the Governor of Florida, and my
father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after
losing by over 500,000 votes.

Wrong!


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Actually, the number is a bit higher.

No it's not. Every recount had Bush as the winner.
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Umm Govt policy usually has a huge effect.

Not this time.
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"The study found that Florida's uncounted optical scan ballots
included as many as 3,527 such potentially valid votes. If those votes
had been counted, Gore would have gained 2,206 votes and Bush 1,321--a
swing of 885 votes for Gore."

Duh, they wern't counted because they didn't count.
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"The study found that Florida's uncounted optical scan ballots
included as many as 3,527 such potentially valid votes. If those votes
had been counted, Gore would have gained 2,206 votes and Bush 1,321--a
swing of 885 votes for Gore."

SAIL LOCO wrote:
Duh, they wern't counted because they didn't count.

Really? Maybe your vote shouldn't count.

It's really kind of funny to see how history has been rewritten in the
aftermath of the 2000 election. What if the Republican had not thrown away
all the absentee ballots sent by registered Democrats? What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand? What if the Supreme Court had not ordered
the recount stopped?

If the same things had happened in another country, the same people who
are smugly insisting that Bush won fair and square would instead be
howling and pointing at how poorly them furriners understand democracy.

Basically, what happened was that the Republican party pulled out all
stops before and after the election to have George Bush Jr installed.

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And there was much rejoicing (by CEOs, oil companies, and defense
contractors).
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DSK

Basically, what happened was that the Republican party pulled out all
stops before and after the election to have George Bush Jr installed.

They pulled out all the ilegal stops.

RB

What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand?

Unregistered voters.
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Too bad they didn't let Castro have his people monitor the
election. He offered.

"DSK" wrote in message
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"The study found that Florida's uncounted optical scan ballots
included as many as 3,527 such potentially valid votes. If those votes
had been counted, Gore would have gained 2,206 votes and Bush 1,321--a
swing of 885 votes for Gore."

SAIL LOCO wrote:
Duh, they wern't counted because they didn't count.

Really? Maybe your vote shouldn't count.

It's really kind of funny to see how history has been rewritten in the
aftermath of the 2000 election. What if the Republican had not thrown away
all the absentee ballots sent by registered Democrats? What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand? What if the Supreme Court had not ordered
the recount stopped?

If the same things had happened in another country, the same people who
are smugly insisting that Bush won fair and square would instead be
howling and pointing at how poorly them furriners understand democracy.

Basically, what happened was that the Republican party pulled out all
stops before and after the election to have George Bush Jr installed.

monty python voice on
And there was much rejoicing (by CEOs, oil companies, and defense
contractors).
monty python voice off

DSK

Sorry, but that's just not the case.

"SAIL LOCO" wrote in message
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Actually, the number is a bit higher.

No it's not. Every recount had Bush as the winner.
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