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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (113140)	4/27/2008 7:13:35 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

whine on, Bush won

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (113140)	4/27/2008 10:19:20 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

that's interesting as the spin has been to the contrary. i would like to see the actual study, though, and the "study" linked in the article leads to a page not found. it is interesting what the news puts out and what it holds back, though.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (113140)	4/28/2008 10:58:06 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

To begin with, almost the entire consortium of newspapers that did the recount was left wing. I think there were 1 or 2 right leaning papers like the WSJ represented (mostly because there are so few in the country to begin with). Below is an article on the recount by that notoriously right wing newspaper the NY Times. lol Here is the key comment about the counts that reached the conclusion that Gore won (of course a request for this count never reached the courts and was never requested by Gore so the supreme court had nothing to do with it stopping it) "This also assumes that county canvassing boards would have reached the same conclusions about the disputed ballots that the consortium's independent observers did". Independent my ASS. rotflmao That means if you were a mind reader or had a clear cut agenda you could easily reach the conclusion that Gore won. "AT BEST", the UNBIASED REALITY is that more people may have intended to vote for Gore than Bush in that election, but there was no honest legal unbiased way to reach that conclusion without being a mind reader. All the legally requested recounts (including some of Gore's obviously ridiculous attempts to just recount heavily democratic counties) said Bush won. Maybe this is what happens when you are busing senile alzheimers patients to the polls and training them to vote for the democrat without knowing what their original politics were. Maybe this is what happens when you are paying homeless mental patients with alcohol and cigarettes to vote for the democrat (highly taxed to discourage it of course - lol) in an effort win etc... Maybe they can't figure out how to vote properly! nytimes.com