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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (1669)	11/11/2000 12:38:52 AM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

In the final analysis on this whole issue, it will boil down to this. If Bush is the winner after the recount and absentees are counted(and I expect him to be), Gore will probably pack it in, and Bush will be President. Gore's supporters will not accept Bush, just as Andy Jackson's didn't accept JQ Adams and so on through history where elections are razor thin. Every time they see Bush, they will see that Palm Beach ballot. If Gore is the winner after the recount and absentees are counted(and unless 80% of the absentee ballots are African American or Jewish that won't happen), Bush will probably pack it in, and Gore will be President. Bush's supporters will not accept Gore, just as Benjamin Harrison's supporters didn't accept Cleveland. Every time they see Gore, they will see those 75 lawyers converging on Boca Raton. On my wall above my desk is a quote that I first heard over 20 years ago. I don't know who first said it but it is my favorite about Washington, DC: " In this Town one must remember that facts are often irrelevant. What is relevant is the perception of the fact....Lawyers, Lobbyists, Bureaucrats, Hill People--All of us must deal with perceptions whether they are factual or not." TG

To: Ilaine who wrote (1669)	11/11/2000 12:42:18 AM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

<<I assume you are aware that the Florida law concerning ballots to be counted electromechanically, as this was, provides that the boxes for checkoffs can be on the left OR the right, so that challenge will fail. >> A former FL Deputy Attorney General said that the law requiring placement of the Checkoff box to the right of the candidate's name makes no distinction between paper and electromechanical ballots. But I agree with you the challenge will fail, for if nothing else, Gore will probably withdraw. TG