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To: The Ox who wrote (78181)11/8/2000 9:44:18 AM
From: kodiak_bull  Read Replies (2) of 95453
 
Hoo-law. I am exhausted and my teeth hurt. Somehow this election makes me feel like we're back in the 19th century and the days of Irish pols in Boston or Tammany in New York.

Let us recap the discrepancies and oddities of this campaign:

Gore loses both Tenn and Arkansas;
Gore's team gets out the homeless and drug addicted vote by promising (and delivering) the evils of Big Tobacco;
Gore's team pulls out the November surprise, DUI;
Certain military units, and not just those in confusion (Tokyo!) mysteriously lose their absentee ballots, en masse;
Bush still appears, pre-recount, to be ahead by about 1700 votes in Florida with a certain number of absentee ballots still to come in.

Only one thing to add: you can be sure that if someone can diddle the Electoral College to try to sway this thing into nonconstitutional territory ("no governing legal authority"?), it will be the forces of evil.

If Bush manages to hold on and win, will he have the mandate of the people?

Yes. Of course. Just review the list above.
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