[Finalapproach29er]

I know it's ancient history, but I forgot all about this.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Yes.

Also the military votes that Al's people tried to cast away.

Also the fact that African American voting was UP, WAY UP, so how can they claim it was supressed.

Also the fact that all of the locations where the voting was allegedly suppressed were run by Democrats

[Susannah]

There were articles about this.

PANHANDLE POLL FOLLOW-UP
Networks' Wrong Florida Call for Gore Depressed Voter Turnout in Florida's Central Time Zone

December 6, 2000

http://www.mclaughlinonline.com/newspoll/np2001/001206panh.htm

[CyberAnt]

The number was reported to be approximately 10,000

It's because there is a large naval base in that area (Pensacola) which is primarily conservative.

[ntnychik]

What you posted is true, but it was a self-inflicted wound on the part of Republicans. I can just picture the Panhandle U-turns as would-be Bush voters believed Gore had won Florida. It was their responsibility to continue on and vote anyway. How many of our good Republicans are out there nodding when they hear the propaganda spewing from the dim contenders: worst economy since Hoover, no plan in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich, no-bid contracts for cronies, etc. Why let the enemy successfully manipulate our behavior?

[pawdoggie]

...and one more thing. When the early call was made in Florida (which, if true, would have all but thrown the General Election to Gore), how many people still wanting or waiting to vote in the Mid-Western or Western states stayed/went home? Enough to give Gore a state like New Mexico? Or, at least, enough total votes to deny Gore his 500,000 popular vote "landslide"?

[Fledermaus]

Personally, I don't care about idiots that would "not go vote" or "leave the line" or "turn around on the way to the polls" just because they heard a projection on the radio.

If those Floridians, GOP and Dem, were too stupid not to know the hours of their polling places and would easily give up because some IDIOT on TV or the radio said polls were closed, then I thank god they didn't vote.

Any idiot that doesn't vote is a good thing.

[Jumper]

What everyone forgot was that Al Gore lost Tennessee and Arkansas, the two States of, at that time, the current Presidential Administration. If Gore would have carried his HOME STATE, all the whinning about Florida would have never risen to the level of "Presidential" politicals.

[Fenris6]

Peggy Noonan's recap of Florida - "The Greenwood Position"

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=65000671

Excellent work. Inspired my first protest. Got to yell at Algore :) "Get out of Cheney's House!"

[WhiteGuy]

The software engineers at Diebold have solved this problem once and for all.

[JoJo Gunn]

[MissAmericanPie]

That stumble bum Gore didn't care if he caused a Constitutional crisis the selfish putz. That and the Wellstone funeral did the demons in.