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It might get attached to a must-pass bill in the senate, but it will get stripped out in conference. Delay has every intention of spiking this thing at every turn. He's one of the few republicans left who isn't hell-bent on pissing off the party's base.

If they cave on gun control after having abandoned even the slightest hint of being for fiscal restraint and smaller government, they won't be able to turn out the votes to maintain their majority after this coming election cycle. If they don't realize this, then they no longer deserve it. The mantra of "the democrats will be worse!" isn't going to be an effective campaing platform for much longer.

Since 9/11, gun control will be a non-issue except in the most liberal states and house districts. The dems are still stinging from Gore losing his own state in 2000.

Since 9/11, gun control will be a non-issue except in the most liberal states and house districts. The dems are still stinging from Gore losing his own state in 2000.

His own state, his own home county, and the precinct in which he voted.

We were very busy in that part of Tennessee for the 4 months before the election. The funny part is, we had thought it would be important, since a decisive Gore defeat in Tennessee while the California and other West Coast polls were open might have been an influence on some Western voters. But no, they delayed releasing the embartassing news, and it wasn't the influence we had hoped.

But had Gore taken Tennessee's electoral votes, the Florida debacle would have been unnecessary and meaningless, as Tennessee's 11 electoral votes would have would have put Gore at 271, over the top and victorious. And the archetect and artist who helped devise that strategic course that was so critical, if for the wrong reason, and put it into practice is known only to a handful of others involved, and a few Gore cronies with a taste for retaliation. But it's not the first time a patriot's heroic efforts have gone unheralded, and it matters little to him now.

-archjy-/-