I also used to think that I was an independent but no longer. That's no longer true.
I can't imagine you ever being an independent. You're pretty far left Ted ;)
Seriously, only by comparison to the people on this thread. I have lived in MN, CA and WA state, and I went to school in NY state. In all four places, I am considered fairly close to center.
Maybe I was a political neophyte but the 2000 election was a wakeup call for me. It made me realize how badly conservatives want to win. It made me realize that their vision of this country is not what I was taught growing up.
Funny how you can have a totally reversed version of the 2000 election. Gore is the one who conceded, then took it back, then wanted selected recounts, then ran to the courts etc.
His reversal was prompted by the many voting irregularities that were found to be fairly rampant throughout the FLA voting system and the closeness of the FLA vote. He would have been a fool to not reverse his postion particularly since he had won the popular vote.
Here's a timeline. Note that several of the counties involved were controlled by democrats, so you can see why they sue.
usnews.com
You will find that Gore's campaign joins the first lawsuit. The Bush side doesn't do anything legal until far down the page.
The sec state (Harris) was totally within her job description to declare when the recounts had to be in (by law). The Dems ran to court to get her job description changed. Good thing they had those activist judges.
It's funny how all these "disenfranchised" voters are only disenfranchised as long as their side needs help. Someone took Jessie Jackson to task on that during the Cali recall. He was whining about all the problems and "irregulararities" etc. and the reporter asked him what he was going to do about it if Davis won. He did his usual "ahh...ahh...ahh", then said "nothing". Figures.
While there was irregularities on both sides, I counted those irregularities by county and found the larger number of irregularities were in FLA counties that went for Bush. This was a presidential election where Gore won the popular vote. Between the vote count irregularities, the problems surrounding the handing chauds and the closeness of the FLA vote, there should have been a revote with FLA Marshalls watching every voting precinct to insure no further ballot stuffing and other BS occurred.
However, the GOP was afraid to do a revote for fear they would lose FLA. So they started their campaign of fear........the country would not have a leader......the country was in free fall........the economy could go into recession. It was a joke.........our Constitution had us adequately protected. However, most Americans didn't know that and panicked. And that's how we ended up with a shrub in the White House. ;~)
You understand that this is the stuff of feuds.
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