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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (9317)	1/14/2001 8:40:14 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

Ridiculous - and just like a Bush supporter to call the post-Election Day "recount" over before it has barely begun. I'm going to wait until the CPA firm commissioned by the Miami Herald issues the finding of its audit of all undervotes and overvotes in the entire state -- it is going to quantify the exact number of ballots with handing chads, swinging chads, dimples, perforations, marks, multiple markings, etc., in all 67 Florida counties (without drawing conclusions as to how they should count). Then we can each decide who we thought won, under different standards. Your guy won the only vote that counted (5-4, USSC). Even Pat Buchanon acknowledges that thousands of his votes were intended to have been cast for Gore, and clearly the overvotes (by a wide margin) were intended to be cast for Gore. Putting aside how recounts of the undervotes turn out, it is patently obvious that more people in Florida left the polls thinking they had voted for Gore than people in Florida who left the polls thinking they had voted for Bush, probably by 20,000 - 30,000 votes. I think Gore would have won a court supervised hand count of undervotes by enough to overtake Bush's unofficial lead had the USSC not interfered with the state courts. But make no mistake about it -- Bush lost this election with the voters nationally, and in Florida, and claiming he has a mandate for conservative governance is enough to make anybody puke. That's why it's so ridiculous to watch the mental midget on TV as he embarks on his presidency. God help all of us, truly.