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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (82019)	11/20/2000 9:16:53 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 769667

The terms you're using ("most Americans" and "minority view") are a little too strong. Of Americans who expressed their opinion by going to the polls, about half preferred Gore and about half preferred Bush. Yes, Gore got a majority of the popular vote, but it was a razor-thin majority. Congress is divided almost 50-50 as well. Neither side can claim a mandate and both parties will need to move even more to the center - which I think will happen. On another subject - as I write this, it seems that Gore will likely not pick up enough votes from the hand counting to defeat Bush. Ironically, therefore, I think the hand counts that Republicans have opposed (out of a lack of confidence that their man would win, I think) will prove to be a real plus for Bush. How fortunate for Bush that Baker and Harris did not succeed in preventing the hand counts. If they had been blocked, many would speculate that Bush would not have been the winner had they occurred and thus was a usurper in the White House.

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