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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (7941)	11/17/2000 11:25:55 AM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30051

Bruce, Although I am marginally pro-bush here, the feeling I get is that after the initial florida results, it seems like someone(s) is trying to change the rules because they didn't like the results, and after the machine recount, they didn't get the results they wanted, they wanted to do manual hand recounts. Gore's team has done a superb job of media manipulation. Notice the counties undergoing manual recounts are where he is ahead? As soon as the phrase 'voter-intent' came up, I figured out that they've now entered the twilight zone. Whatever happened to GIGO? Where does one draw the line? Losses in the market : They're all paper gains and losses (as I found out to my dismay a few times this yr (g)). I am grateful for the occasional tidbits thrown my way, but some of my last few setbacks have been unpleasant. Back to that election : the whole thing is now tainted with a very unpleasant bad taste, and everyone in it should be thinking about ways to salvage any shred of dignity left in there, not drag it out into messy legal court battles. Hand counting in all the close results would have delayed the results for a few weeks, but it would at least let everyone get the impression that something decent came out of this. (As flawed as hand counting of this scale always is). It's not fair to Bush since he's ahead now and has more to lose, but some would see this as a grandiose gesture, worthy of a true leader. To make it fair, Gore would have to throw in something, perhaps an autographed copy of his famous speeches (vbg). It is easy to make grandiose gestures when you have nothing to lose. SbH