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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: epicure who wrote (5665)11/12/2000 12:43:57 PM
From: pezz  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
Here it is :

To: Michael D. Cummings who wrote (70446)
From: iandiareii Saturday, Nov 11, 2000 6:32 PM ET
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Bush planned a scorched earth assault on the legitimacy of the election had he won the popular vote, but lost the presidency in the Electoral College:
Bush Set to Fight An Electoral College Loss
NY Daily News November 1, 2000

They're not only thinking the unthinkable, they're planning for it.

Quietly, some of George W. Bush's advisers are preparing for the ultimate "what if" scenario: What happens if Bush wins the popular vote for President, but loses because Al Gore's won the majority of electoral votes?

The answer:

"The one thing we don't do is roll over," says a Bush aide. "We fight."

How? The core of the emerging Bush strategy assumes a popular uprising, stoked by the Bushies themselves, of course.

In league with the campaign — which is preparing talking points about the Electoral College's essential unfairness — a massive talk-radio operation would be encouraged. "We'd have ads, too,"says a Bush aide, "and I think you can count on the media to fuel the thing big-time. Even papers that supported Gore might turn against him because the will of the people will have been thwarted."

More nydailynews.com.

With Gore having won the popular vote -- so far -- the Bush camp adopted a new posture, for posturing it is.
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