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To: Matchett-PI
Later recounts would show that George W. Bush would have won the election in Florida under any method considered by either Al Gore or the Florida Supreme Court. “The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue.”

Not to start an argument, but if you research more recent statistical evidence about the election of 2000, had the entire state of Florida been recounted (as the Florida SC desired before the U.S. SC stepped in) instead of the disputed counties (that Gore insisted on), it is now estimated that Gore would have garnered more votes in Florida than Bush....but, thankfully, Gore was/is stupid!

54 posted on 09/17/2008 11:01:30 AM PDT by meandog (please pray for future President McCain, day minus 138-Jan. 20--and counting)))
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To: meandog
)...it is now estimated that Gore would have garnered more votes in Florida than Bush....but, thankfully, Gore was/is stupid!

Excuse me, but that is a seriously flawed estimate.

Of the many recounting methods that the media sponsored, one of them involved counting "overvotes" -- where more than one contestant had been voted for. The counters were charged with trying to guess which contestant the voter really intended to vote for.

Sometimes it was obvious. Sometimes not. But calling this method a "Gore win" is totally misleading as such ballots are NEVER counted -- nor did any of the parties ask they be counted, nor would even SCOFLA have endorsed such a count.

55 posted on 09/17/2008 11:09:25 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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