The simple truth: Gore won the popular vote, and if the Florida election was done over, Gore would win

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The simple truth is that Gore won the popular vote, and if the Florida election was done over to correct for peoples errors, Gore would win.

I would be willing to let Bush take office tomorrow if the Gore-bashers would just admit to this simple truth.

-- (@ .), November 10, 2000

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! BAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Want some cheese with your whine?

This is NOT the first time this has happened! The last time it happened was in the fall of 1959 with Kennedy and Nixon. Kennedy had the electorial votes and Nixon had the popular vote. Nixon followed and respected the law of the land and conceeded. Unlike Al Gore who is busy with teams of DNC lawyers right now in Florida looking for or trying to create loop holes to exploit.

Stop your whining!

The simple truth: Gore won the popular vote, and if the Florida election was done over, Gore would win

It ain't over yet. Gore's Red Chinese buddies really want him in there. Not to mention his American Communist supporters that openly endorsed him the day before the election. Many things can yet happen.

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), November 10, 2000.


It ain't over til it's over!

Gore's popular vote margin may not hold.

CNN reports Gore's "biggest talking point" is that he has "won the popular vote and supporters echo that." But it's "not true--not yet. There are still millions more votes to be tallied before it's clear who won the popular vote." Curtis Gans of the Committee to Study the American Electorate was shown saying, "1.1 million outstanding ballots in California, absentees that haven't been counted. 900,000 that haven't been counted in Washington. 400,000 that have been impounded in New York--you can only begin a count today. And about 300,000 votes in Oregon under that all-mail system that they're having trouble getting a final count on. And then there are scatterings of votes in other places, including Alaska, whose votes are highly incomplete. There are more than enough votes to close a 200,000-vote gap." The Washington Post adds, "While Democrats have been touting Vice President Gore's lead in the popular vote, Republicans said yesterday they expect that after all the ballots are finally tallied, that lead will be substantially diminished--and possibly even reversed."

-- Ooops (Ooops@slipofthetongue.com), November 10, 2000.


Ya'll need to look at the senate race in Wahington state to get a clue on the effect of absentee ballots. Cantwell(D) thought she won Tues. night and even gave a victory speech....Gorton(R) would not concede. He was wise enough to wait for all votes to be counted.....guess what?

He now leads by thousands of votes.

You may think Gore won the popular vote, but he really didn't. If everyone could go back and re-vote, many would not vote for nader or buchanaan at all. So those votes would now go to Bush or Gore.

YOU have no way of knowing.

-- Who are you??? (anon@no.name), November 10, 2000.


Who is this idiot who keeps talking about Nixon and Kennedy in 1959?

Do you know anything about American History? We do not have elections in years with a 9. Please stop talking about Nixon and Kennedy in 1959.

Thank you.

-- (It@Was.1960!), November 10, 2000.


Close enough! It doesn't negate what the facts are.

-- ~~~~~~~ (~~~~~~~@~~~~~~.com), November 10, 2000.


talking about Nixon and Kennedy in 1959?

Oppps...you are right. Sorry

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), November 10, 2000.


Ain't,

>Nixon had the popular vote.

No. Kennedy won both the electoral vote and the popular vote. Check your almanac.

Kennedy's national popular vote margin was almost 120,000, well over the number of disputed votes in Illinois.

>busy with teams of DNC lawyers right now in Florida looking for or trying to create loop holes to exploit.

... not unlike the way Republicans looked for ways to convert Clinton's constitutionally-unimportant crimes into impeachable offenses a few years ago, eh?

Cinton's going to be indicted for perjury after he leaves office, which is the way it should have been handled all along.

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), November 10, 2000.


No_Spam:

You're like an oasis in a desert in these political discussions. I rarely even bother pointing out facts anymore. Baker's been on T.V. several times doing the Nixon/Gore comparison, and I simply laugh. Kennedy won 303 electoral votes compared to Nixon's 219, and his popular vote advantage ranged between 113,000 and 118,000.

Baker also blatantly lied about the counties selected for recount, stating that Gore selected only counties that had glaring discrepancies. Volusia County had discrepancies?

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), November 10, 2000.


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