Gore was wrong on all counts.
Gore was vote shopping and when the legal procedures did not result in the votes he was shopping for, he conned the Florida courts into going along with changing the game after the votes were cast, and when that didn't work he asked for more rule/law changes.
Gore never sought a complete and total manual recount of the whole state and under the laws and conditions that applied to such a recount when the votes were cast. Why?
Gore was shopping for votes. He was not interested in what changes a total state manual recount might obtain in majority Republican counties. His original challenges were all in majority Democrat counties where he hoped his vote shopping there could be used to adjust the state totals. The Republicans saw it for what is was from the beginning - a vote shopping expedition.
SCOTUS rightly ended the Florida courts' judicial intervention on the side of Gore, and his little expedition.
The tragedy for the country is that Gore, true to his liberal Democrat roots, cared more about obtaining power than doing what was right for the country.
Nixon - with more legitimate right in 1960 than Gore ever had in 2000 - could have challenged the election results in Illinois; and his friends and allies suggested he make that challenge. He chose not to, telling his friends that no matter what the outcome of such a challenge brought, neither he nor Kennedy would win because the political process of the challenge would leave the "victorious" President and the nation badly crippled in the process. At that point in time, Nixon was a statesman. Gore was a power hungry ass.
"Stop the count"-----the words of the USSC that fateful night that effectively ended Dim's duplicity----will never be forgotten.
WOW! You hit every nail on the head. Well done!
Nixon - with more legitimate right in 1960 than Gore ever had in 2000 - could have challenged the election results in Illinois; and his friends and allies suggested he make that challenge. He chose not to, telling his friends that no matter what the outcome of such a challenge brought, neither he nor Kennedy would win because the political process of the challenge would leave the "victorious" President and the nation badly crippled in the process. At that point in time, Nixon was a statesman. Gore was a power hungry ass.
Good summary.