Election 2000: What everyone forgot! (vanity)

31 Oct 2003 | Finalapproach29er

[Finalapproach29er]

Of all the Democrat whining about the black voters at that college that didn't get to vote, and the suppossed voter rolls that were cleansed (according to the lefties)that liberals say would have put AlGORE over the top, we forgot something:

Part of Florida is in the central time zone! The liberal media called the election for Gore and many people in the panhandle didn't vote. The "redneck riviera" as Joe Scarborough calls it, is Bush country; a lot of people either didn't go to vote or left the lines at the polls when the state was called for A.G.

I forgot all about that. All the liberal bawling about the closeness of the election is made to sound even more silly.Dan,Peter, and Tom took hundreds, if not thousands of votes away from W.

Thought some of you might appreciate that little reminder. Next time you hear a liberal cry about Florida/2000 throw that back at them. That's all. Good evening.

[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

[Finalapproach29er]

It makes the complaining about a "stolen" election more absurd.

BTW W has never spoken his opinion about that time period. Must be saving that for his memoirs.

[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?

[the lone wolf]

IIRC, the total number of "suppressed" voters was estimated to be around 15,000. They were projected to split 2-to-1 for Republicans, therefore 10,000 extra votes for Bush II, and 5,000 extra votes for Gore, giving Bush a projected net gain of 5,000 votes.

Which he did not get, because the major networks made a "mistake" that, purely by chance you see, worked against the Republicans and in favor of the Democrats.

Mistake, right...

[Finalapproach29er]

This is amazing! 5000 votes. I never saw this. Thanks.

[Finalapproach29er]

Your info blows away the Dem. complaints. Thank you. Hope Republicans are doing something to try to stop the fraud.

[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.

[WOSG]

I agree. Ashcroft *did* lose that seat due to shenanigans.

he would have won otherwise.

[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.

[Finalapproach29er]

I never thought of that! Next time some lefty starts whing about Election 2000, I'm going to blitz them with facts they haven't heard recently-if ever. Thank you.

[Finalapproach29er]

whing=whine+ing (sp)

[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!"

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

Next time some lefty starts whing about Election 2000, I'm going to blitz them with facts they haven't heard recently-if ever.

Facts are utterly irrelevant to these people. The whiners have already made up their minds on the subject, and do not want to be confused by such tedious, inconvenient things as facts or truth.