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To: DSPetry who wrote (5080)	11/26/2000 6:14:32 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 45639

Just remember that I am last in the standings. <g>

To: DSPetry who wrote (5080)	11/27/2000 7:12:08 PM
From: starpopper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45639

LOL!!! I haven't been diligent in reading this thread for the past few weeks, and I'm just returning to town after our annual Thanxgiving week family reunion in Hilton Head. I just finished reading the past 200 or so posts so please excuse my political diatribe at the end because so much has happened! While on the Island we witnessed the amazing and complete dominance of the SKINS over the Rams at Callahans sports bar on MNF. There were only a few of us wearing our burgundy & Gold on our sleeves before the game, but as it became clear that it was going to be a "GAME" those closet SKINS fans started coming out of the woodwork! By the end of the night Callahans was indeed Redskin territory! Great game, great victory!:-) I left my family early to make it home to see my boys rip Philly a new one yesterday, only to be crushed by the performance of Slash-McNabb!!! What a scrambler, what moves, what presence...if he ever gets the passing thing down Philly is going to be dangerous! What a game, what a loss!:-( Dave, your posts had me cracking up...what you just experienced goes to the heart of why SKINS fans are so devoted. These guys have always been able to beat anybody and lose to anybody just when you think you've got them pegged! With 12 games under our belts and 4 left to play the NFL is going to be great theater for the next month! Once it's over there will be no recount, no dimpled ballots, no instant replay of a game or coaches challenge of a play! There will be a clear winner and superbowl champion, and as any educated participant knows there will also be a clear winner and President of the United States by then! However (off topic), a rush to certify Bush the victor under existing circumstances would do more harm than good. This is the closest election in history, and our "accepted" level of error had been sufficient in the past because the elections haven't been so close...think about it, one half of one thousandth of 1 percent!!! We now have a candidate-Gore who possess 267 of 270 electoral votes and leads in the national popular vote by some 300,000 votes. The counts to date certified by Florida show a 537 vote lead, out of 6 million cast, for candidate-Bush. There are still over 12,000 votes that haven't been counted even ONCE and thousands of others undercounted because of machine/voter error! Am I missing something?! I'm not for changing the rules mid-game, nor am I for applying those rules differently county by county. That is why I was disappointed that Bush didn't agree to a statewide HAND recount under conforming agreed upon rules. We have a national interest in letting the process run its course so that rules can be tweaked and precedent set for future close elections! Before this mess I was for abolishing the electoral college, but I now have a greater appreciation of the importance it plays in our UNION of states! If we went to the popular vote exclusively no presidential candidate would EVER visit all of those "empty states" that Bush racked up in red on election night! I predict we will see many more electoral winners that didn't win the popular vote down the road! Ms. Harris had the ability to do this the proper way but chose to go full bear with the partisan plan that now has the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida Legislature, and the US Supreme Court intervening. At any rate, with our technology we can now reduce the accepted rates of error that vary widely from state to state, and district to district. We should establish national guidelines that are clear and deploy technology that is as close to infalable that we can get. This isn't rocket science...we can do better! This is not good for the markets but in the long run it will be worth the effort that ALL sides are putting forth! I'm proud of US on the whole and don't see this as an unacceptable delay. Whomever is determined the victor will be OUR President and champion and the loser can look forward to the re-match in four years. $weet Dream$ $tarpopper