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

To: Shoot1st who wrote (66939)	11/9/2000 6:27:43 PM
From: fuzzymath	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

We’ll never know who truly won Florida. Out of 6 Million Florida votes, with a difference in the hundreds or thousands, how can we ever know the actual tally? Funny business surely occurred in hundreds of counties across the U.S. Florida was called for Gore before voting precincts in the Central Time Zone in the panhandle had even closed. People turned around and went home. So -- what was the ACTUAL will of the people of Florida? That can never be known. Legal challenges won't tell us, either. What was the will of the American people? For 2 hours while polls were open, we were told by the media that it was almost certain that Gore had won (because he "won" Florida, Pennsylvania, and Michigan). So, how many people who would have voted without that information being publicized stayed at home? We'll never know. We’ll also never know who they would have voted for. The election was a done deal, we were told. Want to open up a court case for every precinct in the U.S. where something strange or anomalous compared with surrounding precincts occurred? If so, then we may as well dispense with voting and just let the judicial branch decide elections from now on. Challenge the Electoral College (that is, the Constitution) because you won the popular vote? Do this a week after stating the Electoral College will determine who is president, when it was believed that you might win the EC but lose the popular vote? Please, Mr. Gore! The campaigns would have been run entirely differently if whoever won the popular vote would become our next president. If the goal was winning the popular vote, who can say who would have won? If Gore cares about our nation, he will let this election rest after the recount and the overseas absentee ballots are counted. If Gore cares about our nation, he will neither SUPPORT nor INITIATE any legal challenges to the Florida process at this time. If the certified recount (which seems oddly skewed in Gore's direction, from a mathematical point of view) plus the overseas absentee ballot count gives a victory to Gore, I will expect Governor Bush to concede. It isn't worth destroying the nation's institutions and our confidence in our democracy and Constitution. Neither Bush nor Gore will be able to press a substantial agenda given the divided make-up of Congress. So far, Gore is to blame, he's pressing the crisis after having conceded. This must end, or else a whole lot of things generations of Americans have taken for granted about their nation will come to an end. kfarnham@fuzzymath.com