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Old 08-05-2004, 03:21 PM
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Originally posted by MS Fowler
I really wish you dems could get past this "elected" vs " selected". In ALL the recounts by the various new media, NO RECOUNT EVER CAME OUT WITH GORE AS THE WINNER.
The whole court battle was started by democrats, in the corrupt Florida courts. And NO ONE KNOWS who actually won the popular vote because so many are not counted i.e. absentee votes ( which generally favor republicans) are not counted when they cannot affect the outcome. Besides our system is the electoral college is the vote that counts; not the popular vote. Get over it already. I am sick of your whinning!!
Well first off, he said he was kidding, there was no whinning.

Second, as Botnst alluded to, it's not what the count ended up being, it was the process. The US Supremes stepped in and said that a state supreme court couldn't interprete state election laws.

Had the count gone on and Bush had won, no problem, had the FLA Supremes been allowed to rule on state election laws, no problem, but the way it was done was pretty shakey and not the court's proudest moment.
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