Democrats told me (well before 2000) that JFK stole the 1960 election. They were not ashamed, much less outraged. For that reason, the “outrage” over the 2000 election, the readiness for outrage in 2004, and even the Diebold scare in a midterm election, always struck me as inconsistent and somewhat phony. I think a new generation of Democrats thought they were entitled to steal an election in 2000, just as they believed their fathers had in 1960.
Never forget the Florida state assemblyman found with a Votamatic in his trunk in the 2000 mess.
Those bastards tried to steal the election. They would’ve succeeded too if Americans, sick of Clinton/Gore, didn’t stand up and demand honest vote counting.
See Bill Sammon’s book on this. I think it was called At Any Cost.