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To: Armscor38

At that time of disputing the vote Gore had conceeded to Bush but then too it back......the Republican Party then conducted a nationwide PR campaign that Gore was a pathetic sore loser who simply would not accept that he’d been defeated. Much of the national media adopted this frame and pushed it.... Just as we see the Demorats doing now against Trump.

On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court rejected Gore’s request for a hand recount in four counties. Instead, it ordered a ‘statewide hand recount’ of undervotes, with the decisions being made according to the “intent of the voter.”

The U.S. Supreme Court then ‘halted’ this recount on December 12, declaring that since different Florida counties used different voting methods, the voter intent standard violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

Gore could theoretically have asked the Florida Supreme Court to order a statewide recount with more explicit standards. But he took the advice of one of his lawyers, who told him that this would “cause a tremendous uproar.”

Thus, Gore conceded to Bush a second time..


221 posted on 11/24/2020 4:48:39 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: caww
the Republican Party then conducted a nationwide PR campaign that Gore was a pathetic sore loser who simply would not accept that he’d been defeated

From what I remember of 2000, the media started to tally and televise the vote count, and I believe even call Florida before the Florida polls closed, all due to them not realizing Florida has two time zones (that was the excuse at the time).

That mistake may have depressed the vote in the red panhandle section of Florida, so in reality, Bush probably would have won by a lot larger amount if not for the dumb and/or complicit MSM.

With all of those circumstances of 2000, this election is in no way the same. You have statistical impossibilities happen right before our eyes, not a razor thin few hundred or thousand votes difference either way.

247 posted on 11/25/2020 1:58:26 PM PST by PallMal
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