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Originally posted by MagiK:
How come you didn't bother to bring up the fact that the subsequent after the fact counts all turn up with Bush gaining more votes than Gore upon recounts? Or will you dismiss those stories as ambiguous?
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No, I will attribute those stories to the lawyers. Bush had great lawyers. Several thousand individual ballots were fought over, each in front of the judge. It's amazing, you would see Bush's lawyers arguing to include one ballot having a defect and then 10 minutes later arguing against another with the same defect -- and WINNING!! Do a Wall Street Journal search -- it ran an in-depth article (like 6 pages!) with full blow-up photos of the ballots (circa. January or February after the election, IIRC). It thoroughly analyzed the Bush team's post-election legal blitz. Brilliant, brilliant. Gore forgot Clinton's first rule: he who has the best legal counsel wins.
I don't want to drag out this beaten topic. It is suffice to say that it was a poor moment in time for the Nation that goes around the world policing elections for fairness and accuracy. Let's move past it.