Posted on 05/01/2013 5:03:49 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Media Bias: When Sandra Day O'Connor said she regretted her decision in Bush v. Gore, the press threw another fit about the "stolen" election. They seem to forget their own studies proved the court's ruling didn't matter. [snip]
After that election, USA Today, the New York Times and every other major news organization spent months manually recounting Florida ballots in hopes of proving that the court did, in fact, hand victory to Bush.
And what did these recounts find?
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What really gets the libs in this case is this, If Gore had won his own state of TN, the one he currently lives in, he would have been President. Ha ha he lost his own state and thus the Presidency!
Time to Moveon.org
Calling the winner in Florida for Gore an hour before polls closed in the panhandle, the more Republican portion of the state, kept a lot of voters away. Without that prejudiced call, Bush would have won Florida by a large enough margin there would have been no dispute.
Don't they KNOW it's not working?
Sandra Day O’Connor said she regretted her decision.
Incompetence causes that.
The New York Times reported on Nov. 12, 2001, that "George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward."The Media reps counted the votes using six different sets of rules on how to handle "problem" ballots. Bush won under five sets of rules including Al Gore and Bill Daley's set.
However, the main thing was that the GOP's interposition of their staffers between the Dade and Broward County Democratic election officials and a locked room prevented the deliberate alteration of hundreds of ballots behind closed doors, and another legendary election theft by the Dems to go with the one engineered by Bill Daley's dad in Chicago in 1960.
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