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To: TimF who wrote (712)	6/19/2008 10:07:38 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 3816

>>The election was very close overall, and very close in FL, and FL has a fairly high percentage of Cuban votes, and was decisive in the overall election.<< Tim - Interesting how cause and effect can be viewed. One thing I think is fascinating about the 2000 election in Florida is that the final margin between the top two candidates was so small that it would fall within the margin of error for any method of counting. Thus, there is no definitive way of telling, at least from the ballots that were cast, which of the two candidates was preferred by the larger number of Floridan voters. I don't use the phrase "larger number" instead word "majority" because neither Bush nor Gore won a majority of the votes. In case that wasn't obvious. But give the very close numbers in that state that year, you could just as well say that Ralph Nader killed Saddam Hussein. - Allen