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POLL: Did the recount decision (Bush vs. Gore) hurt the Supreme Court's credibility? (Thread 2)

Posted on 09/09/2001 1:26:20 PM PDT by Bryan

Did the recount decision in Bush vs. Gore hurt the Supreme Court's credibility?

Yes 56%

No 42%

Undecided 2%

2210 responses

When we first started this thread this afternoon, the numbers looked like this:

Yes 75%

No 23%

Undecided 2%

775 responses

Their 52-point lead has shriveled to a mere 14 points. Let's keep up the outstanding Freeping! But remember, this is a left-wing news media organization and they will shamelessly delete any vote that traces back to Free Republic. Therefore I am not posting a link. Please cut and paste the following URL address, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and VOTE!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/626057.asp


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1 posted on 09/09/2001 1:26:20 PM PDT by Bryan
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To: Bryan
BUMP
2 posted on 09/09/2001 1:29:09 PM PDT by curmudgeonII
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To: Bryan
here is the link,bottom of page
3 posted on 09/09/2001 1:30:32 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: All Freepers
THREAD 1
4 posted on 09/09/2001 1:30:49 PM PDT by Bryan
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To: curmudgeonII
Bump -- we need a lot of votes, a PLEASE remember to paste the link into your browser. Don't use the FR link or it will trace back here and the vote possibly deleted.
5 posted on 09/09/2001 1:31:10 PM PDT by Silly
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To: to all,need votes!
bump. we need more votes.
6 posted on 09/09/2001 1:32:20 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: Silly
ooopps,i put a link.now i know for next time,thanks for the info.
7 posted on 09/09/2001 1:33:45 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: Bryan
If Gore had won and conservatives had persisted with all these recounts and other forms of revisiting the election, does anyone have any doubt that the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media would be lecturing us to "move on?"
8 posted on 09/09/2001 1:36:44 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: whoever
Thanks for the flag, voted, still needs lots of help though
9 posted on 09/09/2001 1:37:05 PM PDT by Laverne
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To: Bryan
I just voted, pasting the link, it is 43-56 now.
10 posted on 09/09/2001 1:40:19 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: Bryan
FREEPED

2375 responses
No. The ruling was a correct interpretation of the law. 43%
Yes. The court's decision was obviously politically motivated. 56%
I'm undecided. 2%
Survey results tallied every 60 seconds. Live Votes reflect respondents' views and

11 posted on 09/09/2001 1:41:47 PM PDT by ChadGore
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To: Bryan
The most interesting thing about the media and the Supreme court is what it says about the media. The media saw nothing wrong with the Florida supreme court ruling for Gore. But they are much apposed to the Federal court rulling for Bush. They even ignore the vote counts the WAshington Post helped pay for. Those recounts clearly showed that if the Supreme court and the Florida Supreme court has ruled for Gore, Bush would still have won.

The only way Gore could have won, is if the Florida Supreme court had been given back the jurisdiction by the Federal court. Then the Florida court would have had to rule for Bush. Their own recounts show that.

The recounts showed that only if the votes were counted the way Bush asked, could Gore have had a shot at winning. Had Gore prevailed in every court it would have still been President Bush.

The problem is the Media could not accept that. They refuse to believe that Gore was a bad candidate and that Bill Clinton harmed his sides race.

Everything except the scandals and Gore's personality said Gore should win. It is hard for the incumbant party to lose in boom times. Both the media and the Democrats cannot accept the truth of that statement.

I for one am glad.

There is one rule a winner never violates. For if a winner violates this rule, he ceases to be a winner. That rule is NEVER EVER LIE TO YOURSELF. Both the media and Gore do that a lot.

That is the prime difference between Gore and the Clintons. The Clintons lie to everyone but themselves. Gore and the media only lie to themselves. The more they do it the easier it will become to beat them.

12 posted on 09/09/2001 1:48:55 PM PDT by Common Tator
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Why did David Kaplan falsely cahracterize the Supreme Court's decision as a "razor-thin 5 to 4 decsion" when the KEY Constitutional issue was decided by an OVERWHELMING 7 to 2 MAJORITY?

SEVEN TO TWO (7 to 2) on the critically important Equal Portection Issue is not a "razor thin" or "5 to 4" decision. The 5 to 4 portion was a minor procedural, not at substantive, difference, only. Justices Souter and Breyer joined the other 5 majority Justices on the issue of Florida's Supreme Court's having run roughshod over the 14th Amednment's Equal Protection Clasue!

The key and only major Cosntituional issue addressed by the Supreme Court was that the Florida Supreme Court's vote count deciosn was a blatant violation of the sacrted Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

The 5 to 4 portion of the decions was only a procedural and non-substatnive non-Constituional and pragmatic difference of opinion as to whether there remained enough time for Florida to complete a count even if the extraordianry hooles and horrendous flaws in theFlorida Supreme Court's own sharply divided opinion couls be remedied before the December 12th midnight deadline prescribed in the Constitution.

That Constitutional deadline (selection fo Electors "six days before the Electors meet") was a mere two hours after the U.S. Suipreme Court's own decion was rendered, at 10 p.m. on December 12, 2000; so, obviously, addressing such substantive flaws as were pointed out by the SEVEN (7) concurring justices on the Equal Protection Issue in the 14ht Amendment, and conducting such a full, fair and uniform-standard count was clearly impossible.

I must refer the Newsweek reporter to the thorough and paisntaking job of journalism and historic reporting in the New York Times bestseller by Washington Times reprter Bill Sammon:

"At Any Price: How Al Gore Tried to steal teh Election."

Reporter Kaplan is now attempting to hijack both the Law and our History with Leftist Lies, propaganda, and distortions disguised as "reporting."

One must wonder what his true agenda is...

13 posted on 09/09/2001 1:51:54 PM PDT by FReethesheeples
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To: Bryan
Why did David Kaplan falsely cahracterize the Supreme Court's decision as a "razor-thin 5 to 4 decsion" when the KEY Constitutional issue was decided by an OVERWHELMING 7 to 2 MAJORITY?

SEVEN TO TWO (7 to 2) on the critically important Equal Portection Issue is not a "razor thin" or "5 to 4" decision. The 5 to 4 portion was a minor procedural, not at substantive, difference, only. Justices Souter and Breyer joined the other 5 majority Justices on the issue of Florida's Supreme Court's having run roughshod over the 14th Amednment's Equal Protection Clasue!

The key and only major Cosntituional issue addressed by the Supreme Court was that the Florida Supreme Court's vote count deciosn was a blatant violation of the sacrted Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

The 5 to 4 portion of the decions was only a procedural and non-substatnive non-Constituional and pragmatic difference of opinion as to whether there remained enough time for Florida to complete a count even if the extraordianry hooles and horrendous flaws in theFlorida Supreme Court's own sharply divided opinion couls be remedied before the December 12th midnight deadline prescribed in the Constitution.

That Constitutional deadline (selection fo Electors "six days before the Electors meet") was a mere two hours after the U.S. Suipreme Court's own decion was rendered, at 10 p.m. on December 12, 2000; so, obviously, addressing such substantive flaws as were pointed out by the SEVEN (7) concurring justices on the Equal Protection Issue in the 14ht Amendment, and conducting such a full, fair and uniform-standard count was clearly impossible.

I must refer the Newsweek reporter to the thorough and paisntaking job of journalism and historic reporting in the New York Times bestseller by Washington Times reprter Bill Sammon:

"At Any Price: How Al Gore Tried to steal teh Election."

Reporter Kaplan is now attempting to hijack both the Law and our History with Leftist Lies, propaganda, and distortions disguised as "reporting."

One must wonder what his true agenda is...

14 posted on 09/09/2001 1:52:10 PM PDT by FReethesheeples
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To: Bryan
Why did David Kaplan falsely cahracterize the Supreme Court's decision as a "razor-thin 5 to 4 decision" when the KEY Constitutional issue was decided by an OVERWHELMING 7 to 2 MAJORITY?

SEVEN TO TWO (7 to 2) on the critically important Equal Portection Issue is not a "razor thin" or "5 to 4" decision. The 5 to 4 portion was a minor procedural, not at substantive, difference, only. Justices Souter and Breyer joined the other 5 majority Justices on the issue of Florida's Supreme Court's having run roughshod over the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause!

The key and only major Cosntituional issue addressed by the Supreme Court was that the Florida Supreme Court's vote count decision was a blatant violation of the sacred Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

The 5 to 4 portion of the decions was only a procedural and non-substatnive non-Constitutional and pragmatic difference of opinion as to whether there remained enough time for Florida to complete a count even if the extraordianry holes and horrendous flaws in the Florida Supreme Court's own sharply divided opinion could be remedied before the December 12th midnight deadline prescribed in the Constitution.

That Constitutional deadline (selection fo Electors "six days before the Electors meet") was a mere two hours after the U.S. Suipreme Court's own decion was rendered, at 10 p.m. on December 12, 2000; so, obviously, addressing such substantive flaws as were pointed out by the SEVEN (7) concurring justices on the Equal Protection Issue in the 14ht Amendment, and conducting such a full, fair and uniform-standard count was clearly impossible.

I must refer the Newsweek reporter to the thorough and painstaking job of journalism and historic reporting in the New York Times bestseller by Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon:

"At Any Price: How Al Gore Tried to steal teh Election."

Reporter Kaplan is now attempting to hijack both the Law and our History with Leftist Lies, propaganda, and distortions disguised as "reporting."

One must wonder what his true agenda is...

15 posted on 09/09/2001 1:55:02 PM PDT by FReethesheeples
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To: FReethesheeples
New poll results 55% to 44% (2539 responses).
16 posted on 09/09/2001 1:59:58 PM PDT by Bryan
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To: *** IF THE LIBERALS WIN THIS POLL - CNN, MSNBC AND CBS WILL REFER TO IT ALL MONTH! ***
"If the deceiving/cunning liberals win this poll -
CNN and MSNBC - - - will refer to this poll all day tomorrow!!!"
- AND PROBABLY - THIS WHOLE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER!!

...IF THERE WAS EVER A TIME TO PING ALL YOUR FRIENDS....NOW IS THAT TIME!

17 posted on 09/09/2001 2:03:37 PM PDT by ChaseR
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To: *** IF THE LIBERALS WIN THIS POLL - CNN, MSNBC AND CBS WILL REFER TO IT ALL MONTH! ***
"If the deceiving/cunning liberals win this poll -
CNN and MSNBC - - - will refer to this poll all day tomorrow!!!"
- AND PROBABLY - THIS WHOLE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER!!

*****************
...IF THERE WAS EVER A TIME TO PING ALL YOUR FRIENDS....NOW IS THAT TIME!

18 posted on 09/09/2001 2:04:06 PM PDT by ChaseR
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To: *** IF THE LIBERALS WIN THIS POLL - CNN, MSNBC AND CBS WILL REFER TO IT ALL MONTH! ***
"If the deceiving/cunning liberals win this poll -
CNN and MSNBC - - - will refer to this poll all day tomorrow!!!"
- AND PROBABLY - THIS WHOLE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER!!

*****************
...IF THERE WAS EVER A TIME TO PING ALL YOUR FRIENDS....NOW IS THAT TIME!

19 posted on 09/09/2001 2:04:06 PM PDT by ChaseR
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To: ChaseR
Current results 54% to 45% (9-point lead), 2713 responses.
20 posted on 09/09/2001 2:06:24 PM PDT by Bryan
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