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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: maverick61 who wrote (90288)11/27/2000 6:10:54 PM
From: Dan B.  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Excellent points in that Chicago article, IMO, Re:

"Will-of-the-people turns out to be code for embracing technicalities when they serve his needs (as with his success in getting Broward County to use a liberal rule for counting indentations as votes), but ridiculing technicalities when they do not (as with his successful challenge to a Florida law that requires hand recounts to be completed within seven days of an election)."

and particularly, Re: "He could have graciously called from the start for a second statewide recount by uniform means--either by hand or by machine--but instead aimed only for hand recounts in counties controlled by Democrats. He could have agreed that counties should use their pre-existing rules to determine how questionable ballots should be counted, but instead pushed for new rules, drawn on the fly, on how to evaluate indented chads in ways that would be favorable to him.

The bolded above is going to define one long lasting impression of Mr. Gore...a County Grubbing, fairness ignoring lout.

Dan B
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