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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (87866)	11/26/2000 10:20:00 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Don't be so sure. What if the United States Supreme Court unanimously says: "Whatever the Florida Supreme Court says ... goes. This is a matter for Florida to decide, not the federal government" Then where does the Bush camp go from here? The Bush camp will watch as the Florida Legislature takes over and knocks their own court down. As they should.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (87866)	11/26/2000 6:04:44 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 769670

Re: "Don't be so sure." Well, I'm not so sure. Mr Boise(Gore's lawyer) appears to claim the Supreme Court isn't going to even address the issue I'll remain confident they ought to, namely the notion that a constitutional system includes provisions that allow candidates to gain geographical counting advantages. Of course, Bush's lawyer has been on the tube saying this issue is certainly NOT off the table. It ought to be on the table, IMO, and I'm personally seeing that everyone of both parties I talk to agrees on this. However, the other response to your post has it right. The Fla. legislature never intended that a vying for geographical advantage in counting votes should take place, and they may quite correctly refuse to certify any electors that result from a skewed count, the likes of which, again, was never intended- despite the Supreme Court of Fla.'s decision. The Fla. court allowed for the existence of geographical advantages to remain in the process as Al Gore would have it. This was wrong, period. I don't know what the U.S. Supreme Court will or will not do, but I know darn well what they ought to do regarding this issue- for the good of us all. Dan B