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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (123143)1/22/2001 1:25:43 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
First, Al Gore wanted the whole county recounted, as the law required. Stopping the count was not his idea.

Second, the normal expectation going into a recount is that any votes found in a manual recount would follow the same pattern as the previously counted votes. It might not turn out that way, and it seems that the Miami/Dade recount would have benefitted Bush in the end. But that's not what anyone would have expected going in, based on the Miami/Dade voting pattern.

There are also some anomalies that go the other way. For example, Lake County went heavily Republican, yet the recount there produced 130 net votes gained for Gore.

Imo, every professional politician associated with the Florida election believed that a statewide recount would have been likely to benefit Gore because the majority of the undervote, just going by raw numbers, was produced in Democratic precincts. It could turn out differently, but that was the rational expectation.
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