Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message hereOne it's not clear to me that Gore won the popular vote in 00 and, two, Kerry lost the popular vote very badly.
And you cannot assume that if the electorate knew that the election was based on the popular vote, that Gore would have won it anyway. How many people didn't bother to vote precisely because they knew which way their state was going to go even before the election. How many Texans stayed home because they knew Bush would take the state, that otherwise would have voted for him, had it been a popular vote?
I suspect Gore's team of DemocRats created thousands of fraudulent ballots for Gore. Florida state's election website published the vote count on line as they came in near real time. When about 90 - 92% of the total votes were received and counted by the Florida's election commission, the 4 largest counties release their votes to be counted, which at that time, Bush had a lead a little over 100,000 votes. It appeared that the D-rats, who ran the polling places, wanted to gauge how many more fraudulent votes that they had to manufacture to overcome Bush's lead.
It's no coincidence that Gore recounted those same counties.
For further indirect evidence that Bush easily won Florida in 2000, is by looking at the 2004 Bush's winning margin of 380,000+ votes... I haven't heard any plausible evidence that explains the difference in the Florida's vote count in just 4 years.
The Democrats haven't figured out how to cheat electronic voting yet. So for now, they'll demonize touch screen voting.
"One it's not clear to me that Gore won the popular vote in 00 and, two, Kerry lost the popular vote very badly".
And three, the democrats were trying to hold out in hopes of winning Ohio. Hypocrites!
I don't believe that Gore won the "legal", "citzens only" popular vote in 2000. You toss out the couple million or so illegally cast votes of illegal-aliens and non-citizens, then Bush wins the popular vote by about a million to a million and a half votes!!! We can thank the Motor-Voter law of 1993 (or 1994) for making it easy for illegal-aliens and non-citizens to register and vote in our elections.
"Kerry lost the popular vote very badly"
Yes he did - by over FOUR MILLION votes.
Plus it was calculated that Bush received 10-12 million more votes in 2004 than he did in 2000. It would appear that a lot more repubs (and some closet dems) made sure we didn't have a repeat of 2000.
Gore had a clear-cut popular vote win in 2000. Certainly not a landslide, certainly not as decisive as W’s win in 2004, but Gore did win the popular vote.
I’m super serial!
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