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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99890)	12/4/2000 1:05:24 AM
From: Master (Hijacked)	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Republicans might have argued against it, but pressure from public opinion would have forced them to agree.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99890)	12/4/2000 1:25:20 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "No way would the Republicans have agreed to any state-wide recount, under any circumstances. They can calculate; they'd lose. Their only hope from the beginning has been to prevent recounts." Al Gore, being behind, never asked this of the system either, obviously. Even had Bush accepted his offer, neither had the power to make it happen within Fla. law. At any rate, it is just as logical to question why Al Gore greedily sought only favorable territory to him. Perhaps he knew HE wouldn't win statewide. Easy for him to make an offer a week later when the time for it had already passed, knowing full well no provision of the law existed which would normally allow it to happen. Bush would agree to the hand-count concept, a Judge would say nothing in the law could allow it to happen across the state after the 72hrs had passed, and Gore would simply say counting the territory he'd already requested would offer a legal(read fair, but not) result. Dan B