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To: tejek who wrote (195916)	7/26/2004 11:46:59 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584759

"Clearly, the left wasn't paying close attention" You got that right. And not just the left, it was everyone to the left of, say, Genghis Khan. Assuming, of course, that the whole left-right dicotomy is really valid. Gore lost. Or, at least, he was close enough that a single state with an electoral history at least as colorful as Texas made the difference. Ralph gets the blame for that, and it is pretty unfair. Gore, and by extension the Democrats, didn't make their case. And they lost. Smirk was vulnerable on so many fronts, but Gore couldn't exploit any of them. All they had to do was bring up his record as a failed businessman, the way he manipulated a city government to condemn private property to use for a sports stadium and then pass the cost of the resulting lawsuit onto the city, the way he raped a state government to further his own ambitions, the way he has lied and cheated his way through his whole life. None of that was an issue. And it should have been. To add insult to injury, they allowed him to distort Gore's record and accomplishments in a way that made him look like Dubya really was. And now they are angry. For what? They dropped the ball in 2000. It'd serve them right if there really are backdoors in the Diebold code to allow for only the "correct" votes to be registered...