Right about Bush. I see him as quite a hypocrite, esp. if stuff in the LATimes Ed. is accurate, including this opening line: In Texas, vote-counters routinely count a dimpled chad as a vote for the candidate because it clearly establishes the voter's intent.
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All this mess has certainly made me think that 1/2 the close elections ever held could have gone to the wrong person. What an error-prone system! Hopefully that will be the positive to come out of this. The big negative seems to be the endless post-election campaigning and pressure by the candidates themselves, completely meddling in Florida's job to produce an accurate count, via Baker, Christopher, et al., and endless legal briefs, threats, and now, for cripe's sake, threatening to have the Florida legislature overturn a possible Gore vote-majority-victory. Why, praytell, didn't they just do that on election night, it would have saved a lot of counting!<g>. |
