Florida was no debacle. Gore tried to steal the election and he failed. It would have been a debacle if he succeeded. The partisan Press is mad because their man didn't win. They are just looking for a reason that the middle voters could accept.
Agreed. Florida was no mistake from the moment that Gore sent Bill Daley to oversee the "process of manufacuring votes" and tighten up the race. Chicago's Daley machine is legendary for throwing voting boxes into the Chicago river, voter intimidation and other "disinfrancisement" of non-approved candidates (read someone outside the Machine).
Quote JIM NICHOLSON RNC Chair: "It's certainly an option that would have to be looked at. I mean, what we need first and foremost in this process is fairness. Fairness to everybody that went in and voted.
You know, the fact that 20,000 votes got kicked out in Palm Beach County is not so extraordinary. In Cook County, home county of Bill Daley, Gore's campaign manager, 120,000 votes got kicked out. In Duval County, Jacksonville County, 26,000 votes got kicked out and there Governor Bush won 60 percent of the vote. So these things happen in these elections. [/snip]
President Nixon in 1960, when the votes were counted, he was down 2/10 of 1 percent and he was told there were major voting irregularities in Chicago and Texas, and he was advised strongly by a lot of people. Yet he said in the interests of my country, I'm not going to put this to a recount. President Kennedy needs to get organized to take over this government. President Ford did the same thing in '76." Evans & Novak 11/11/2000