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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6752)	11/19/2000 12:18:14 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

People have always carped about the stealing of elections- and in some cases elections have been stolen. But neither party has historically clean hands- or even clean hands in this election. I'm afraid the partisans fail to understand that statistically there are probably very similar numbers of cheaters on both sides- and that in this election, neither of the guys at the top, while particularly pure, is actually involved in orchestrating any cheating that might or might not be going on. Both candidates want to win- both are willing to exploit the law and the court of public opinion to do this. To label one of them better than the other seems to me just one more partisan exercise. We chose our "guy" for our own political reasons, then we try to find "objective" reasons to justify the choice. But there are no objective reasons. We chose based on our personal interests- we can SAY that our interests our lofty, and noble and pure- but that don't make it so, especially not to the guy on the other side of the fence.

To: Lane3 who wrote (6752)	11/19/2000 12:31:38 PM
From: david james	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Karen, I completely agree. I think this is what bothers me most about the partisan views. Each side is completely unwilling to note that the other side has made a good point - or has brought up a good issue with regards to the fairness of the election. Partisans are grouping everyone in their opposing side as evil, untrustworthy, and manipulative. As soon as one side is ahead in the apparent direction of the process, then they are quick to say that after that stage, it is important that the system now reach its conclusion. And they are quick to blame the other for extending the process - and fault the other for bringing in the lawyers to extend the process. Oddly, it is making me start to believe in the electoral college system. If it wasn't for the electoral college, this process would be going on nationwide. As it is now, it is the state of Florida that must decide on their electoral college members. In theory, I believe they could even decide to split their electoral college votes down the middle. Although no doubt the lawyers would love that battle. We have a statistical dead heat in Florida. And we may have a statistical dead head in the nationwide popular vote as well. At least the country is healthy and neither candidate is likely to do too much damage with Congress so close. Hopefully in four years we will see two new candidates that actually deserve the admiration of America. David