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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7395)	11/25/2000 1:55:59 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

Any thoughts on exactly what happened election night in the 1 1/2 hours when Gore called to concede, and then called back to withdraw that concession? Who called him?? Threatened him? Or What??? Very ODD, indeed.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7395)	11/25/2000 9:35:15 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 10042

As for the absentee ballots, they are always counted late in EVERY election. But given historical voting patterns, folks generally know who will carry the largest percentage of votes derived from them. Sorry, but I don't buy that. This isn't most elections. This one is really, really close. We're talking about only a few hundred votes. Typical projections don't work in that scenario. The election has to be considered too close to call until all the votes are counted. The Reps and the Dems are debating what "all the votes" means--whether it includes hand counts and dimples or not--but the VERY EARLIEST that all the ballots could be counted was the due date for absentee ballots. Any insistence before that by the Bush side that he had won IMO was an undue rush to judgment. At the very least it was ungracious and tacky. If I have to watch another replay of Dole saying he won on election night, he won the recount, and he won with all the absentee ballots, and how many more times does he have to win, I'm gonna puke. I'd be comfortable with them saying that he won after the absentee ballots were counted and he will win again on Sunday when the election is certified according to the revised deadline, and asking how many more times he has to win. Then, they'll be entitled, IMO, to their sound bite. But the previous one was premature and "unseemly." Karen