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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Phoenix who wrote (2531)	11/27/2000 6:11:26 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 3887

Six in 10 Americans Say Gore Should Concede Monday, November 27, 2000 By Will Lester WASHINGTON — Polling immediately after Florida's certification of George W. Bush as winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes found that six in 10 Americans say it is time for Al Gore to concede the presidential race. "I think Gore should give up and say good luck to Bush," said 21-year-old Peter Greene of Concord, N.H., who voted for Gore, the Democratic vice president. Greene said he'd like to see Gore as president, but thinks "he's putting a negative aspect on the presidency." Gore should concede and try again in four years, Greene says. Such public opinion measured just after a big event like the Florida certification of Bush as winner may be more a snapshot of the emotional reaction to an event. It could take several days to get a more settled picture of public opinion. About six in 10 participants in the ABC News-Washington Post poll also said they would accept Gore as legitimately elected if he were to emerge as the president. More — almost eight in 10 — say they would accept Bush as legitimately elected. About 40 percent in the poll taken Sunday night said Gore should concede because the vote was fair, while almost 20 percent want him to quit because they "want to get this over with." Shelly Leonardo, a Democrat from Clay, N.Y., voted for Gore and stayed up until 4 a.m. election night watching the results. But she was about fed up with the lengthy recount. "It has become less and less interesting as it has dragged on," she said. "Now, let's just pick a president and get on with it. We must look like fools to the rest of the world." Gore's lawyers went to court Monday in Tallahassee, the Florida capital, to object formally to the certification, a step known as a "contest" under state law. The vice president has been working vigorously to keep Democrats behind his appeal. Almost six in 10 people say it's more important "for this to end quickly" than for each side to make its full arguments in court. That reflects partisan differences as much as impatience with the long fight: Just over eight in 10 Bush supporters say it's more important for the race to end quickly; three in 10 Gore supporters say the same. Mary Quirk, 22, of Newburg, Ind. and employed at a bank in downtown Evansville, said it's time for Gore to give it up. "I think Bush officially won," Quirk said. "They've recounted enough times. (Gore) can fight it as long as he wants, but I don't know if it's going to change anything." Almost six in 10 overall say they would oppose the Florida legislature getting involved in the presidential race. And about the same number said Florida's secretary of state "did the right thing" by keeping the 5 p.m. deadline despite a request from Palm Beach County to extend it to 9 a.m. Monday. Those polled were about evenly divided on whether "dimpled chads" from ballots that were indented but not perforated should be counted — a question at the heart of manual recounts in southeast Florida. The national poll of 607 adults has an error margin of 4 percentage points. The poll did not reflect a shift in feeling about who should be president. That was still split, as it was on Election Day, with 43 percent saying they favor Bush and 42 percent favoring Gore. Some Gore supporters were happy for him to fight on. Armin Nassiri, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, said Gore has a right to pursue legal challenges. "He has to fight all the way to the end," Nassiri said with a mischievous smile. "He has to make this a very bitter victory for Bush." foxnews.com