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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (120099)12/1/2000 1:29:14 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Mary,
RE:"There is no doubt that Al Gore won the popular vote."

Perhaps, but aren't their still another 1 million absentee ballots that won't be counted in California?

RE:"There is also no doubt that Al Gore won Florida - and there is a big if - if you go by the definition the "Will of the people"."
"Will of the people" is basically being used by Gore here to gain support.
There doesn't seem to be anymore evidence of Gore winning FL than Bush winning FL. The key is after 4 tries, Gore has lost all the counts...
There is nothing to suggest that if the whole state was recounted by hand that Gore would pick up more votes. There is evidence that Bush would pick up votes since Gore recounted 3 heavily populated and heavily democratic counties. He managed to expand the vote count and pick up some votes statistically because of it but in counties that went for Bush, Bush would likely pick up votes. If all the military ballots were allowed, Bush would pick up more votes.
Palm Beach, Volusia and Broward counties, where there was a hand recount make up about 17% of the votes statewide. These are about 2:1 Gore. Gore couldn't make up the difference with these counties. Even with Dade thrown it he might not make it, might come close. Throw in the rest of the state and he most likely would lose by a lot more than the 930 or 537 he's lost by now.

Jim

RE:"He should state that he has won on a technicality"

What technicality did GW Bush win on?
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