but, but I was supposed to win! It's not fair!!!
Posted on 12/21/2005 9:30:25 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
A recount Wednesday upheld Republican Bob McDonnell's narrow victory for attorney general in the closest statewide election in modern Virginia history.
McDonnell gained 37 votes in the statewide recount. The final vote, certified Wednesday night by a three-judge panel of the Richmond Circuit Court, was 970,981 for McDonnell and 970,621 for Democrat Creigh Deeds, a 360-vote margin.
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A little bit of good news.
My blood still boils over what the democrats did in Washington state last year.
I will never forget and when that imcompetent Christine Gregoire loses the the next election I will personally dance a jig.
Mr. Deeds not pushing for another recount? Must not have been listening to his Democratic handlers.
"Wait, lookee what we found, a whole box of ballots stuffed into this broom closet in an AME church that was the polling place for a 90% Dim voting precinct! Every vote must be counted, so we have to have another hand recount!"
Democrat handbook says, "If you don't win the first time around, recount until you do."
If they follow true fashion, there will be more recounts and amazingly, "lost ballots" may appear along with some that were declared inelligible earlier.
All they need do is take lessons from King County Washington. Where else can you have nearly 3,000 more ballots than registered voters and the courts find no problem?
"Democrat handbook says, "If you don't win the first time around, recount until you do."
And they say our policy in Iraq has failed because some factions are screaming election fraud regarding last week's election. We've been around over 200 years and the Dems do the same thing. The Iraqi election went smoother than Florida in 2000.
Just watch the boxes of "misplaced ballots" come pouring out of the black precincts now, so the Dims can scream for the next four yerars that the GOP stole the election by disenfranchising blacks yet again.
I heard poor black Iraqis were denied their right to vote. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton should be on the news to talk about this disenfranchisement.
But but but, there must be more recounts allowed. The demorats haven't come out on top yet.
In fairness to the judge, he didn't actually find that there was no problems, he found that there was nothing he could do about it, which, given how insanely stupid our law on the topic is, isn't a completely unreasonable position.
Essentially, the law says we have to PROVE as in PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that the illegal ballots went for the victor, and that they wouldn't have won otherwise. Unfortunately, it's an almost impossible standard.
It's more the fault of bad laws then a bad court in this case. Bad laws that don't allow for any changes once obvious incompetence and/or corruption have taken place.
Anyhow, nice to see that in VA they have their head screwed on right.
Please note for all those who on previous threads "just knew" that the election would be overturned for the Democrat, that not everything you confidently assert "just has to happen" really does. Verify, yes, but don't always be confident that gloom and doom will appear.
Virginia Republicans are doomed to obscurity ping.
*roll eyes at will*
With Deeds losing the Attorney General race, then the RAT Gov nominee in 2009 will be the Fairfax businessman planning on challenging George Allen this year.
Depends on how badly George Allen kicks his clymer. (and he will).
Mark Warner came pretty close to John Warner in 1996. Of course a lot of that had to do with GOP dissatisfaction over Jawn.
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