Don't Prettify Our History (Krugman Still Complaining About Florida 2000)

New York Times ^ | August 22, 2005 | Paul Krugman

[RWR8189]

Wasn't Krugman hired as an economic contributor?

[Paleo Conservative]

Wasn't Krugman hired as an economic contributor?

What has he ever contributed to economics?

[Marauder]

Paul Krugman is a boil on journalism's butt.

[Jenya]

Where's that crying baby DIM logo?

[RWR8189]

IIRC he was hired to write about economics.

[Numbers Guy]

Ha ha, Paul, Gore lost.

Keep on whining about it though, it's such a great strategy for attracting voters.

[RichInOC]

Can you imagine the uproar if it'd been the other way around, and Dubya had tried to get them to count ballots off the discard pile?

[JRios1968]

About the evidence regarding a manual recount: in April 2001 a media consortium led by The Miami Herald assessed how various recounts of "undervotes," which did not register at all, would have affected the outcome. Two out of three hypothetical statewide counts would have given the election to Mr. Gore.

I guess he's referring to the hypothetical recounts held in Bizarro-World. Algore would have lost under most scenarios...IIRC, Algore only won the scenario where everything was counted by creating new law with each ballot.

[MJY1288]

The simple fact that this guy (Krugman) is still writing about the 2000 election is proof of just how shallow he is. WHAT A PATHETIC LOSER

[SAJ]

Nothing other than some warmed-over revanchist Marxist kwapola, if truth be told.

[Paleo Conservative]

if truth be told.

Well I shouldn't expect it to appear the New York Times.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Paul Krugman is a boil on journalism's butt.

A pustulant one at best...

[Paleo Conservative]

Shouldn't that be a boil on a Clymer?

[Tom_Busch]

The NYT can keep it up with guys like this POS, Rich, Dowd, etc. When it's all said and done, their stock will be next to worthless.

[RJL]

The probable answer is that Al Gore would have won, by a tiny margin.

It’s ”probable” that Monkeys will be flying out my… any minute now.

A Krugman story is always good for a couple laughs.

[ozzymandus]

Jeeze. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, or something like that. These punks think if they repeat their lies about the 2000 election long enough, they'll become true. I really wonder if any RATS really believe this crap.

[SAJ]

Nor I. Nonetheless, it's really quite astonishing that the Slimes can't locate anyone to write any sort of coherent economic commentary (well, ''coherent'' only insofar as not an oxymoron, given the Slimes' editorial views). Even Robert Reich, a state socialist right down to his entirely-too-close-to-hand toes, writes more coherently than Krugboy.

[johnmecainrino]

Krugman and the dems never mention that the media called florida early costing Bush thousands of votes studies have shown in the panhandle conservative area. Media knew the panhandle closed an hour later and robbed Bush by calling the election early.

Can you imagine if the media waited till the conservative areas where closed and called the election before the liberal big cities closed the dems would be in an uproar.

Also Al Gore had his lawyers successfully argue that overseas military ballots shouldn't count because they didn't have the right stamp on them.

About 2,000 military ballots weren't counted because of that coward gore. Bush won the other military ballots 2 to 1 in florida so bush would have gotten about 1350 to 650 which cost bush another 700 votes.


Between the media calling florida early before the panhandle polls closed and gore lawyers preventing military ballots to be counted gore should have been disgraced, but in our media he was made to be the victim.

[Marauder]

A pustulant one at best...

A total pain in any case.

And, yeah, the word "Clymer" works for me.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Krugman and the rest of the Left never mention the FL kangaroo Supremes, how they tried to rewrite FL state election law, why they got slapped down twice by SCOTUS.