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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (65346)	11/9/2000 7:47:41 AM
From: U Up U Down	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Gore led the popular vote in what may turn out to be the closest election in history. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Gore had 48,707,413 votes to Bush's 48,609,640, even narrower than the 118,573 vote margin by which John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon in 1960. In the electoral college vote, which constitutionally determines the winner of the presidential race, Gore had 260 to Bush's 246. Two states remained too close to call: Florida, with 25 electoral votes and Oregon with 7. In New Mexico, with 5 votes, Gore led Bush by about 10,000 votes but a partial recount was underway there. post-gazette.com Florida recount foxnews.com

To: PartyTime who wrote (65346)	11/9/2000 9:25:30 AM
From: briskit	Respond to of 769667

I think the whole country should re-vote. News analysts called the election for Gore before poles closed in the west, only to change their call later. Now we want to re-vote so Gore can get more votes. I agree it looks like people are saying they wanted their vote to count for someone other than got tallied. This argument has lots of problems, though. We could do something like this after every election. I say let a constitutionally provided for process be enacted. The electoral college can vote differently than the vote in many states. Or let's just throw out the whole election and let everyone vote again.