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To: Kanetsu who wrote (50075)	4/4/2001 12:44:02 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

OT: No one knows if Bush would have won since they didn't allow recounts in key precincts. The doubts, disinformation and counter-arguments will linger on. I always felt there should be a total recount of the state under strict non-partisan guidelines (Carter and Ford running it) but of course political operatives did everything to keep that from happening. The squeaker of all squeakers. Read in today's story "more people went to the polls intending to vote for Gore" (In Florida). Whether that's true or not, we will probably never know, but it was a stinky situation in general and exposed American politics at its worst and weakest. It also showed us that even judges are partisan (scary thought but true). Still, why blame Republicans? We understand how big party machinery works when well-oiled with soft money. Also Gore and Nader both made tremendous mistakes during the campaign (Gore keeping Clinton out scared of his shadow and Monica, and Nader tarring Gore with the same brush though he's an ardent lifelong environmentalist). Also McCain held his nose and put Bush over the top just by getting him New Hampshire. So Florida is in a sense a moot point. Gore and Nader blew it. Gore should have won despite Florida at least by allowing Clinton to go into Arkansas and rally much earlier. And Nader should have bowed out (Nader is finished now). All armchair Monday morning quarterbacking though. Just have to make the best of what we have now. I'm somewhat encouraged campaign finance reform has momentum (and any GOP congressmen following soft money king/pesticide salesman Tom DeLay in attacking it may not be re-elected) and that ANWAR is apparently safe from drilling and that Bush was skewered for recommending higher air and water pollution levels and saying almost nothing about conservation and clean energy sources. Bush came off looking like a pawn of the polluters and energy-wasters and hopefully has learned from the experience (but probably not). Now if we can just get this tech economy back on the rebound trail. And I look forward to when shorting techs is a very unprofitable thing to do. But for now we are still in a crisis state with too much anxiety, fear and loathing all around. The two most powerful men in the nation right now look like Greenspan and McCain. Hope for more rate cuts soon and McCain-Feingold saving the country from more and more political corruption in the future.

To: Kanetsu who wrote (50075)	4/4/2001 1:19:05 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 57584

OT: "The Herald said the newspapers' review found that canvassing boards in those counties discarded hundreds of ballots that bore marks no different from those on scores of ballots that were accepted as valid presidential votes. ``Had those ballots instead been counted as valid votes, allowing dimples, pinpricks and hanging chads, Gore would be in the White House today,'' the Herald said. It added that the ``multiple layers of The Herald's findings allowed both parties to claim validation Tuesday of their positions during the protracted election dispute." Bottomline: nothing has nor ever will be settled on this issue so let's all drop it.