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

To: KyrosL who wrote (70705)	11/11/2000 9:02:54 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Kyros, based on the last two posts of yours that I have read I think Dubya should have had his folks in close contact with you instead of spending his time in photo ops with his "transition team". He is practicing the arrogance of power and he does not yet have power. Also, little brother Jeb should have called you. George did tell Gore when Gore called to rescind his concession that Jeb knew what was happening in Florida so why was Gore taking back his concession. Apparently Jeb is also not all that up on Florida election law. As so many have said on this thread about the Palm Beach County voters.... If you make a mistake that is it.... Well Jeb what about it? Got to add the other fact...Dubya in 1997 signing into Texas law the fact that hand counting is better than machine counting and going to court in Florida to stop it. I did say that he is going to court....Not Gore but Bush. The man has no character. Again, good posts.. I hope Bill Daley has or is hiring you. Regards, Don

To: KyrosL who wrote (70705)	11/12/2000 5:26:45 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Well, ladies and gentlemen, Gore will probably be our next president. dailynews.yahoo.com My projection of a net gain of 620 votes for Gore in Palm Beach county here: Message 14787585 was actually conservative, since the sample of 1/100 th of the votes produced a net gain for Gore of 19 votes. If the sample was a representative sample of the county, then the board member's projection of a 1900 vote net gain for Gore should be pretty close to the eventual result (19*100=1900). So, if the Bush challenge to the hand recount fails in the federal courts (a certainty, IMO), and if a now almost certain attempt by Bush to extend the hand recount to all Florida does not succeed (probable, IMO, since it will be changing election rules after the fact), Gore will become president. Hand recounts in other close states will not reverse the outcome, unless there are substantial outstanding absentee ballots in those states. In any case, I think that Gore would fight tooth and nail such recounts, if they violate those states' recount rules, since an acceptance of recounts in those states in spite of their rules would open Florida to a universal recount. In retrospect, it seems that Gore's threat of lawsuits and encouragement of private lawsuits to rectify the PB county ballot problem and his obvious loss of numerous votes because of it, may have been designed to gain moral legitimacy for this partial vote recount. The partial recount favoring Gore is morally wrong, but it does follow all the rules. The PB ballot problem favoring Bush is morally wrong too, but cannot be counteracted without breaking the rules. It seems to me that Daley and Christopher have thoroughly outmaneuvered Jeb and Baker and successfully neutralized the stupidity of the PB Democrat official that designed that county's disastrous ballot. Also, it seems to me that Gore is not as dull as he seems. He was carefully plotting strategy while Bush was giving media interviews and "preparing for the transition." Kyros