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

To: Mephisto who wrote (9565)	1/28/2001 6:37:47 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 10042

Florida voters whose ballots were found invalid because they punched more than one presidential candidate's name were three times more likely to have included Al Gore as one of their choices as George W.Bush, according to a ballot analysis by The Washington Post. The Post reviewed computerized records for 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties. While both the former vice president and the new president may have lost votes intended for them, Democratic voters may have been significantly more likely to have their ballots thrown out, the Post reported in its Saturday editions. Gore was among those chosen on 46,000 of the invalid ballots, while Bush's name was punched on 17,000. Republicans argued that on the discarded ballots, it is impossible to know who the voter wanted to select. Bush won Florida by 537 votes out of about 6 million cast, giving him the state's 25 electoral votes and thus the national election. The Post said there were also indications that Democrats were more adversely affected by Palm Beach County's infamous ``butterfly ballot'' - which listed presidential candidates on both the left and right sides. The study found that the 8,000 Palm Beach voters whose ballots were discarded because they voted for Gore and another presidential candidate listed near Gore's name, voted at a rate of 10 to 1 Democratic in the U.S. Senate race. Palm Beach County is heavily Democratic. Saturday January 27 12:37 AM ET Paper Releases Election Analysis dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Mephisto who wrote (9565)	1/29/2001 2:36:49 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 10042

Does anyone know if Robert F. Kennedy had any trouble or prolonged period in being confirmed as Attorney General for his brother, John F. Kennedy? Both were Roman Catholic. We had a Democratic Senate and House, I believe, so maybe that is why there was little problem pushing this confirmation through. Did some research tonight online, and couldn't find any problem mentioned at all....He was AG from Jan 1961 to Sept 3, 1964, when he resigned to run for the Senate. Why would/should/does John Ashcroft's religious beliefs have anything to do with being head of the Justice Department, if Robert F. Kennedy's beliefs did not????????

To: Mephisto who wrote (9565)	1/29/2001 1:22:11 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

Ascroft will be confirmed even though he scuttled civil rights in Missouri, even refused to let the League of Women Voters go into St. Louis to register voters and lost his Senate seat to a dead man because: As a former senator, Ashcroft has an almost automatic level of support among his former colleagues that would not be given to a Supreme Court nominee from outside the Senate who held the same views on abortion, gun control and other hot political issues, said Georgetown University law professor Susan Low Bloch. dailynews.yahoo.com It's called Senate collegiality. Ashcroft belonged to the Senate's exclusive inner-circle at one time!