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

To: SecularBull who wrote (68503)	11/10/2000 12:32:37 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I agree these are all good points, and should be used in the future to muzzle the Press in making premature reports and calling states or calling elections. But you know as well as I do that what we are talking about in Palm Beach is people that actually did go to the polls, who did vote and now may have been misled by the format of the ballot into incorrectly expressing their choice.

To: SecularBull who wrote (68503)	11/10/2000 12:53:17 PM
From: mike60613	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<How about the "disenfranchised" voters in the Florida panhandle that heard that Bush had lost Florida to Gore before the polls even closed? Should we conduct a new election in the panhandle? How about all of the other voters, nationwide, who decided to not go to the polls when it appeared that Bush was on the road to losing the electoral college? Would Gore have a lead in the popular vote if the media had not violated the public trust? >> first of all that argument could work both ways - how many Gore supporters didn't go because they thought he had it sewed up .... but secondly and more importantly, the president wasn't the only office on the ballot - so you're telling me these people could care less about their state and local races even though these are races that actually have more bearing on them?