Everytime this crap is brought up, somebody needs to remind these journalists that Florida had no less than three recounts, including a cherry-picked recount of Gore friendly precincts. The entire fiasco is ably chronicled in Bill Sammon's book At Any Cost, which should be required reading for any who keep parading our the "we wuz robbed in Florida" cliches.
The actual Supreme Court vote was also 7-2 against giving some votes (Gore friendly precincts, mismarked and partially marked ballots) more weight than others, namely military votes disqualified on the most minute of technicalities. The 5-4 vote was simply on the timing-- 5 said the vote-manufacturing games needed to be halted immediately, 4 would allow them to go on a little longer.
Furthermore, it's a real stretch to describe Gore's behavior as "gracious" after his people forced all the recounts AND the court cases.
"Gracious" would be better used to describe Richard Nixon who didn't put the country through that type of mess when Chicago precincts clearly needed to be audited after his "loss" to JFK and Johnson.
After the election debacle had been settled, in 2001, several media teams went to Florida to conduct their own investigations.
Mind you, these media teams were not members of the George-Bush-fan-club. Yet, every team that did their own investigation arrived at the same conclusion:
In nearly all ballot-interpretation scenarios, Bush won. Only in one extreme (read: absurd) interpretation scenario did Gore win. And even in that scenario, the results remaind highly, highly doubtful.
I always remind myself of this every time some idiot parrots the "Gore-won-the-popular-vote-so-he-should-have-been-President" nonsense. The Electoral College is there for a very balanced reason; so any numbskull (e.g. Hillary) who advocates getting rid of the Electoral College is being disengenuous and intellectually lazy.
I know. We have to get over our fatigue at correcting this fallacy every time it is mentioned, even though it is mentioned 10,000 times and accepted as true by most people.
talking about Gore supposedly winning and Supreme Court giving it to Bush.
Hey! We don't need no steenkin' facts! Gosh if I had a nickle for every lib that I slapped down with the wet mackerel of truth...