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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 (9843)	8/2/2001 3:31:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

With this election, one might as well say that it was decided by the botch that Florida elections officials made of it. If they had run it even semi-competently, there never would have been such mess. We have a counter-example: Washington State. The Senator's race was also a dead tie, but get this: the elections officials counted all the votes in the first count. So there was no pile of potentially valid but uncounted votes to fight over. What a concept.

To: jlallen who wrote (9843)	8/2/2001 4:01:09 PM
From: RCMac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

The election was decided by the voters. Its just that Al wasn't happy with the outcome. Oh, JLA, you were doing so well, actually engaging in debate for several posts until you retreated into thumping and rather silly cliche. Nadine has a point not answered by you or Lazarus -- the S.Ct. majority applied equal protection concepts in a way they had vigorously resisted in their entire prior judicial history. As one commentator put it, if last October you had given every constitutional law professor in the country the facts of the Florida election case and asked them to predict how the justices would have voted, not a one of them would have told you that the five majority justices would have voted as they did on the equal protection issues or the states' rights issues -- they would have said these 5 would have gone the other way, consistent with their prior records. Hence the limiting of these doctrines to "these facts only." Embarrassing, and a self-inflicted wound. JLA, you said a few posts ago that you had had "some experience with the law." If you were a lawyer, or even a former law student, you presumably wouldn't have used this somewhat cagy form of words. What exactly is your claimed experience with the legal system? -- and please don't tell me it's just that you went through a divorce or were charged with a crime.