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To: Scumbria who wrote (132560)	2/12/2001 4:54:54 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570320

RE:"No matter what comes out of the newspaper count, the bottom line is that the USSC stopped the counting"" Sounds good but someone had to stop the circus. I don't think there was anyway to recount the votes reliably and the USSC knew it. RE:"and awarded the Presidency to the popular vote loser." True but that's not the way we elect Presidents...The Dems know that. The Carvilles were spinning that just to gain support for recounts and recounts and recounts... RE:"The election is forever tarnished, and Bush will never be accepted by much of the population." People have a very short memory. Toss them a few bennies and entitlements and they will forget. Cheap Gasoline will help... Jim

To: Scumbria who wrote (132560)	2/12/2001 4:55:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570320

No matter what comes out of the newspaper count, the bottom line is that the USSC stopped the counting and awarded the Presidency to the popular vote loser. The election is forever tarnished, and Bush will never be accepted by much of the population. FLA law had a deadline for the vote count. The constitution gives power in these cases solely to the state legislature. If it made a deadline by law then that deadline should have held. I do disagree with the reasoning of the majority opinion by the USSC but not with its result. If "when the votes are counted" Gore still loses then the election is still tainted?? What does the popular vote have to do with anything in this situation under the constitution? Tim