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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (5204)	12/8/2000 10:09:54 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 6710

Gore had a legal right to request that. I suspect Bush's legal team would have sued to get uniform standards implemented for evaluating what a vote is.

To: TraderGreg who wrote (5204)	12/8/2000 10:10:33 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 6710

On November 8 Bill Daley and Jesse Jackson were already in Florida screaming about concentration-camp-victims-who-voted-for-the-Nazi. I don't think any Republican could have felt any trust or respect at all for anything Gore wanted. If Sam Nunn had asked for a statewide manual recount, it would have gone over better, but I don't know how well.

To: TraderGreg who wrote (5204)	12/8/2000 10:17:07 AM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

Greg's list of "What IFs", anyone of which would have resulted in a "clearer" cut winner: 1. No sex addiction by Clinton=>no impeachment=>GORE wins 2. No Nader in the race=>FL goes Gore=>GORE wins 3. Ridge as Bush VP=>PA goes Bush and other marginal states go Bush=>BUSH wins 4. No DUI announcement=>BUSH wins 5. Clinton campaigns for Gore=>we will never know the impact of that, only that he would have definitely had an impact one way or the other, kind of like an option straddle. This is merely a partial list of course, but note that all of these events and others dovetailed in a particular direction to produce a result that is certainly the closest election in over 100 years. This election is going to be a model for examination for a long long time...hundreds of books, thousands of theses and articles, made for TV movie? TG