Bush "won" Florida by 500 votes. Had the recount continued 3 more days, it's likely Gore would have won by 1,500, with the momentum he was getting in the recount.
Bush "won" Florida by 500 votes. Had the recount continued 3 more days, it's likely Gore would have won by 1,500, with the momentum he was getting in the recount.
Actually 537 popular votes awarded to Bush/Cheney as I wrote to friends years ago:
"...The 2000 Florida election still grates with me, since Bush "won" 271 Electoral Votes to 266 (a 5 vote margin at just exactly the number required with the one abstention being one of the 3 D.C. Electors for Gore), 538 more votes if counted for Gore, would have given Gore 292 to Bush's 246 (a 46 Electoral vote margin). The Brooks Brother's Riot got the recount that the court said was justified (except they kept the deadline impossibly short) effectively halted so that Cheney/Bush ended up with a 537 vote lead (exactly as many popular votes as Electoral College voters that voted, since one abstained).
The attitude of one of the Republican poll workers I talked to seemed too hasty, too (eager to ignore any attempt to do an honest recount, back when I still considered many of our lower echelon Republican's honest brokers). During the 2016 primaries, I had a running issue with one of the D.C. Republican [alternate] delegates (I think), about the dozen different ways they assigned delegates in winner-take-all, winner-take-most, or proportional rules they got for states where my old party couldn't win in the general, so wanted every delegate (and later Elector) possible to skew the Electoral votes whichever way helped them the most..."
I have nothing but contempt for all the participants and supporters of the Brooks Brothers rioters for all the damage they did then and are still doing from the higher positions they have infiltrated into.
I'm disgusted to imagine even worse people that will be enabled to replace all that Trump promises to replace in his "Shallow State," should the electoral college be as counter to the popular vote winner (I suspect Trump will be an even bigger loser in the popular vote than both previous elections).
Bush "won" Florida by 500 votes. Had the recount continued 3 more days, it's likely Gore would have won by 1,500, with the momentum he was getting in the recount.
Actually 537 popular votes awarded to Bush/Cheney as I wrote to friends years ago:
"...The 2000 Florida election still grates with me, since Bush "won" 271 Electoral Votes to 266 (a 5 vote margin at just exactly the number required with the one abstention being one of the 3 D.C. Electors for Gore), 538 more votes if counted for Gore, would have given Gore 292 to Bush's 246 (a 46 Electoral vote margin). The Brooks Brother's Riot got the recount that the court said was justified (except they kept the deadline impossibly short) effectively halted so that Cheney/Bush ended up with a 537 vote lead (exactly as many popular votes as Electoral College voters that voted, since one abstained).
The attitude of one of the Republican poll workers I talked to seemed too hasty, too (eager to ignore any attempt to do an honest recount, back when I still considered many of our lower echelon Republican's honest brokers). During the 2016 primaries, I had a running issue with one of the D.C. Republican [alternate] delegates (I think), about the dozen different ways they assigned delegates in winner-take-all, winner-take-most, or proportional rules they got for states where my old party couldn't win in the general, so wanted every delegate (and later Elector) possible to skew the Electoral votes whichever way helped them the most..."
I have nothing but contempt for all the participants and supporters of the Brooks Brothers rioters for all the damage they did then and are still doing from the higher positions they have infiltrated into.
I'm disgusted to imagine even worse people that will be enabled to replace all that Trump promises to replace in his "Shallow State," should the electoral college be as counter to the popular vote winner (I suspect Trump will be an even bigger loser in the popular vote than both previous elections).
тАжwhich is exactly why the rush to stop the count.
Yep, in GW's plan, along with Rumsfeld and two others, to get the oil.
Yup. That was the stolen election so of course Stop the Steal is now their mantra.
That's true!
Yes, that is the truth.