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

To: Dave Gore who wrote (105000)	12/7/2000 11:36:56 PM
From: sunshadow	Respond to of 769667

"That's the point, right?!" No. This is not a matter of semantics... its a matter of legality and the not so small point of no "winning" person ever asking for a recount...

To: Dave Gore who wrote (105000)	12/7/2000 11:47:25 PM
From: Techplayer	Respond to of 769667

Dave Gore, semantics? the option was not available and was certainly not Gore's to give. what could Bush "accept"? all that it would have done was lead directly to a manual recount of Gore's votes and a big "sorry, your time was up last week" for Bush' votes. Spinning the story into a big lie is an interesting approach. tp

To: Dave Gore who wrote (105000)	12/7/2000 11:51:33 PM
From: JLIHAI	Respond to of 769667

Now I'm really confused. What political candidate in history has requested a recount when he was leading? Why would Bush, who maintained there was subjectivity in what Gore was pushing for, suddenly do a 180 and play follow the leader with someone he doesn't want as a leader? Once again, since the power to go ahead with or refuse rests with the canvassing boards, and since the deadlines for such requests had expired, he would have been taking a tremendous risk. The Republican counties are not as densely populated as the Democratic chad counties and he would have to have received almost total cooperation to achieve balance.