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To: bobby beara who wrote (62161)	11/10/2000 11:08:03 AM
From: KymarFye	Respond to of 99985

OT: (got stopped out at breakeven on another gap reversal play this AM, so have time to blather: "whoever gets the win after all the absentee ballots, should be pres, and forget this bs" 1) As to the man's right to be heard, mainly I was reacting to the characterization of the Palm Beach voters as "zombies." IMO, whether or not anything more can or should be done regarding the vote remains debatable. If the situation were reversed, I'm fairly confident that the Rs would be raising Hell, proclaiming to all and sundry that some dark and evil Clintonesque cabal had conspired to steal the Presidency. The oft-invoked example of Nixon's concession is fairly ahistorical: In 1960, as now, there were plenty of allies pushing the issue on behalf of the loser, and there were a number of very practical/political reasons for Nixon not to try to test the results. 2) As more than one wise old guy of unquestioned integrity has been heard to utter in recent days, at this point (with the cat well out of the bag) it would serve the eventual winner well, Bush or Gore, to have the process seen as legitimate. Having a judge or set of judges (i.e., state, appelate, even Supreme) examine the process in Palm Beach or elsewhere may be essential to the next President's ability to govern effectively, and also to the loser's ability to give in without earning the eternal enmity of his followers.