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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (268228)	6/29/2002 4:12:21 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

Thomas - Wow. That post made no sense. It's not possible to argue with it, because I just don't see where the logic is. But if you want to believe that you have somehow proven Clinton's responsibility for 9/11, you go right ahead. For some reason I can't figure out, people keep bringing up the election of 2000 on this thread. So just for fun, I'll tell you what I think about that. First, a review of the facts. Stop me when I get something wrong. Approximately 52% of the voters across the country voted for candidates other than George Bush, namely Al Gore and Ralph Nader. When all the electoral votes were tallied on election day, it became clear that until the count was complete in Florida, the outcome of the election would not be known, since no candidate had the requisite 270 electoral votes. We're all together so far, right? Now here's where you may decide to disagree with me, although I think I've got a pretty good case. The vote in Florida was so close that no matter how the votes were counted, the margin of error of the counting method would exceed the difference between the votes for Bush and those for Gore. But, and this is important, it is still undeniably true that nearly 52% of the voters had clearly indicated that they did not want Bush to be President, since they had voted for either Gore or Nader. Thus one could reasonably argue that the electoral votes of the state should not all go to Bush. Gore made a critical mistake the following day, when he called for a recount in only three counties, the ones that would more likely have gone his way. At that point, he gave up the appearance of having the moral high ground. Had he asked for a full recount of the entire state, he might be President today. Now if you want to believe that just because things happened to work out as they did, and that because the Supreme Court decided on a 5 to 4 vote that the recount in Florida had to be stopped, then somehow Bush was the rightful winner of the election, you can go ahead and believe it. Legally, he did win and he is the President now, so I don't see how it matters much. But when one examines the facts, it is obvious that it could just as easily have gone the other way. And if it had, then the person for whom more people voted would have won instead of the guy the majority of people, even in Florida, didn't vote for. - Allen