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To: TigerPaw who wrote (81140)	11/18/2000 3:06:02 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

No it's just that this is best reason to explain the 1 in a billion statistical probability that the count is Palm happened by accident. But then again I know that you can flip a coin a thousand times in a row and always get heads. All Gore team members have special coins with both sides heads and both sides tails. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: TigerPaw who wrote (81140)	11/18/2000 3:14:49 PM
From: Greta Mc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I think we're getting so bogged down in details here that we are forgetting the big picture: Al Gore decided to dispute the recount in Florida by looking at certain counties. That is what started this. Al Gore did not do what other Presidential candidates have done: accept the totals (contingent to the counting of the absentee ballots) and move forward. Instead, he decided to do what he, and every other Presidential candidate who lost by a narrow margin or possibility of fraud, was entitled to do: exercise his legal rights (which other Presidential candidates who lost the election chose not to do). I keep asking myself why this bothers me so much, and I now realize it's because something that appeared stable and yet I accepted was not done with 100% accuracy, is now being torn to shreds. If a man who wants to be President is willing to put his country through this, then does he care more for the country or for himself? I used to laugh at Al Gore, but frankly, he (and his Machine) now scares me.