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

To: TH who wrote (107208)	12/9/2000 1:13:50 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

After all this, I'd just give Gore the job. Yuck.

To: TH who wrote (107208)	12/9/2000 1:46:09 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 769667

It's not in the winner's interest to contest an election, obviously. But in cases where a recount request is reasonable, as it is here, the authorities (and the law) in most states usually accede to the request as being the most accurate method available to count the votes. When the authorities do so, the winner agrees perforce. This supposes an impartial election authority. I don't think you had one here. Bush could have looked more statesmanlike by indicating to Jeb and Katherine that he would not fight the recount request to the last drop of blood. But he chose to fight, and to launch a propaganda campaign against the legitimacy of manual recounts. This was what first got me really annoyed, that the GOP was attacking the system, not just Gore.