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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4945)12/5/2000 11:17:30 PM
From: TraderGreg  Read Replies (2) of 6710
 
Ray--They lost every spin battle they ever engaged in with Clinton...every single one. His biggest enemy in the Congress is no longer Speaker and no longer in Congress as an example.

But here my friend, they definitely have won the spin war. They have managed to convince a majority of the population that a ballot that passes thru a machine without registering a vote has been definitively counted in the state of FL. That same ballot in the state of NM however has not been counted. That same ballot in the state of TX however has also not been counted. But in FL, it has.

They have refused to accept a statewide recount in FL and then have simultaneously stated that no manual recount is valid unless it is state wide...and there too they have managed to convince the majority of Americans that that is a valid argument.

They have enforced a strict timeline on vote submissions and managed to interpret it as the ability to not only reject those counts submitted two hours late but also reject all that were completed within the 5pm deadline in PB county...and have convinced the majority of Americans that that too is valid. However, they want the guidelines lax when it comes to the Seminole absentee ballot issue and their SoS gladly added in ballots that were hand counted for Bush in other counties.

Often times, you will find a people are deserving of a leadership acumen no greater than the people's own limitations...kind of a morph on the Peter Principle. Every now and then, through no skill on their part, they somehow manage to violate this principle...but not this time.

W is precisely what the populace wants right now...even many of those who voted for Gore.

TG
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