“But instead of celebrating all I have to see is 500 BS stories every day about how Hillary is mere seconds away from stealing the election.”
If they’re just trying to jerk me around, they’re succeeding.
I went to bed one night happy in the knowledge that Algore had conceded, that Count Taxula was in the rear-view mirror. Waking up to the Florida recount lunacy was quite a shock.
You must have been the only one getting a good night sleep that night (back in 2000). Even though Gore conceded (for about a half hour) I knew that FL was not safe and headed for a recount. I don't know what was going through Al Gore's mind during that half hour but I read that his handlers were not going to let him get on that stage even if they had to physically restrain him. Eventually they talked sense into him and he took back the concession.
Many gave Gore grief for putting us through what we went through. But he did the right thing. You better believe that if the situation was reversed, it would be our side demanding the recount and trying to reverse questionable ballots. Thank God we prevailed but that just goes to show you how every vote really does count.
Bush was just 537 votes ahead in FL at the end of the night but even that slim margin was not able to get overturned in a state that is much bigger than any of the states we are talking about today.
So the situation today is not even in the same ballpark. In the closest state (MI), Trump has a lead 20X more than what Bush had in FL. Wisconsin has a Trump lead 44x as large and in PA Trump has a lead about 100X what Bush had in FL. And ALL THREE of those states would need to flip to get Clinton the victory. Which just isn't going to happen.
This election wasn't even really close. We have several elections in modern times that were closer than this: GWB in (2000 and 2004), Carter in 1976, Nixon in 1968 and JFK in 1960. Other than 2000, we didn't have much drama in any of the other closer ones.