"He got 45+% last time, and that was with the bad Florida call which suppressed R turunout. I think it would have been more like 47% without it."
We lost around 10,000 net votes in the Panhandle because of the mistaken early call, which is less than 0.1% of the total Florida vote. The lost Panhandle votes would have made Bush's margin invulnerable to crooked manual recounts, bit it would have been insignificant in McCollum's percentages.
I know about the lost votes in the panhandle, but I wasn't speaking of McCollum, I was speaking of Bush in Washington State.