>>The Republicans really feel that heaven owes them this one.<<
here's the evidence.
1. gore lost the original election.
2. gore lost the recount of the original election.
3. gore is suing his democratic partisans in miami b/c they can't comply with the supreme court ruling.
4. gore is suing to mandate dimpled ballot counting
5. now gore is saying he will not concede, indeed he will contest, the florida election, if he loses - even though he cherry picked manual count counties and the count was completed under the fl supreme court guidleines.
>>The Republicans really feel that heaven owes them this one.<<
of course, gore is doing this for selfless reasons. maybe he really does "feel our pain." ;-)
given these facts, i wonder why some democrats find it so easy to criticize republicans and so hard to criticize democrats (i also wonder the same visa versa, but that isn't applicable to your democratic leanings).
re: >>What is the federal issue involved here?<<
i believe it is fundamentally unfair to weight 3 county votes more than the rest of the state county votes. my guess is that bush somehow screws up this argument by stating manual counts are unfair (i believe they are more fair than 3-5% error rate machines).
imho, manual counts are great. unfortunately, the fl supreme court screwed many more florida voters than they helped by approving the 3 county manual count. if the voter's interests were REALLY of importance, they would have manually counted the state. jmho.
re: >>When both sides are scrapping for votes, do you really expect the Democrats to say "this absentee ballot has no postmark, or is dated after Nov. 7, so it's clearly illegal, but what the hey, it may be from one of our brave servicemen, so let it in anyway." Ain't gonna happen.<<
not gonna happen. that is unless they felt the votes helped them. then they'd argue no rational person would every disqualify them ;-) the republicans would sing a chorus of "the rule of law" over and over.
my point is the demos and pubs LIE when they say they have the voters' interest at heart. bore and gush are manipluative, lying hacks. and, equally so. jmho. |
