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

To: alan w who wrote (107632)	12/9/2000 1:10:04 PM
From: ecommerceman	Respond to of 769667

Alan--no, the "verdict" has not been in for a month--the vote total has fluctuated from over 1,000 votes for Bush to now just over a hundred or so. Whether it's going to move to Gore or not has yet to be seen. I won't argue that the FL election hasn't been badly botched, and their use of these brain-dead punch cards in some counties is EXTREMELY unfortunate, but that hardly means one candidate gives up his right to a recount because of a bad voting process. As I pointed out last night, the very law in Texas allows for a manual recount of the votes, and that is all that Gore has ever asked be done. I don't believe either candidate has necessarily handled himself very well in this sad affair, but I certainly don't see that Al Gore is a paragon of evil here, or that Bush Jr. is a paragon of virtue... ________________________ Uh, e, the "verdict" has been in for a month. Just because Gore lost and didn't accept it doesn't make it ongoing. Every time these ballots are handled, bent, scraped etc.. further undermines their accuracy. As far as your comment about Gore conceding if the FL SC ruled against him yesterday, that is not a given. There was already talk of him pressing on with the fight. The paragon of fairness comment is the worst though. Mr. "count all the votes" Gore is the one wanting to throw out the military votes. I guess Bush could concede at some point, then go find a way to mine some votes, the recant his concession. Algore, the paragon of fairness.