They’re Still Counting: The world has changed, but the recount goes on

National Review Online ^ | September 18, 2001 | Byron York

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[Cyber Liberty]

"...illegitimate Repug President"

Buh bye, disruptor.

[daniel boob]

Kiss my arse and go away.

You're not factual in your comments - a majority of Americans thought Bush was the legitimatally the President.

Stay away if you're going to twist facts - oops, I forgot - you're a lib.

[Cyber Liberty]

He went away: "No Current FReeper by that name."

Nuked by Jim or an admin, by all indications. Posts are gone along with the disruptor.

"John's All Purpose Disruptor Santizer PERL Script."

[GVnana]

The hand of God on America? Yes. We got George Bush instead of Al Gore. Thank God.

[dware]

Thank you for posting this! My boss may have well posed for this cartoon, as just last week after the tragedy, he made this same switch! I am subsequently forwarding the cartoon on to him.

thanks again!

[Brian Allen]

Bush would have won Florida under almost every conceivable scenario.

And in fact did win it by a half dozen or so of them!

[AmishDude]

So, what were we supposed to do, wait a year until we got a President?

Incredible.

In unrelated news, it was revealed that Palm Beach County stored several thousand of as-yet uncounted votes in the World Trade Center. This information has come from Rep. Gary Condit (Whatever-CA) who said that he got a call from Chandra Levy verifying that she was in hiding in the complex and had seen the dozens of boxes.

[Hidy]

How can anyone say that Bush was the choice of the majority of Americans when we know he lost the popular vote by half-a-million ballots and that AT LEAST 25,000 Floridians who wanted and tried to vote for Gore had their votes voided or their ability to vote unjustly revoked?

We KNOW that Gore would have won Florida if the votes of everyone who tried to vote for him (yes, and everyone who tried to vote for Bush) had been counted.

It's okay for conservatives to crow. Their man is in the WH, their Supreme Court did what they wanted it to, and their man Baker mercilessly outsmarted the Gore team post-election. But it is not okay for conservatives to claim that black is white and expect to get away with it. The truth is that the majority of Americans who voted last Nov. 7 voted for Gore. Had all the voting gone smoothly and had all the votes for Gore been counted, he'd be the president today.

[Republican Wildcat]

You have got to be kidding. There are still more media recounts going on?

[Loyalist]

Gore won approximately 600 counties out of 3000(Bush won 2400), yet he supposedly "won" the popular vote. If that doesn't fail the smell test, I don't know what does.

Quick reality check here:

The number of counties won by Bush and Gore has no relation to the popular vote in itself because counties range in population from a few hundred to millions. There is also no correlation between the population of a state and the number of counties.

Gore won the most heavily populated urban counties by wide margins while Bush won most of the least populous rural counties.

An interesting statistic, to be sure, but hardly indicative of vote tampering.

[Republican Wildcat]

I have to ask, why do people like you come here to spew such things you know to be lies? Do you really think it will gain any traction here?

[Waco]

But not counting the absentee Military vote. Wonder how many Hillary votes were in the WTC.......and still are?

[CWOJackson]

You been snorting chads again?

Thank God Gore isn't President!

[PMCarey]

their man Baker mercilessly outsmarted the Gore team

Hey, don't forget the Republican voters who mercilessly outsmarted the Democrat voters by filling out their ballots correctly!!

[mrustow]

I don't like the way this York guy puts it. It's like the New York Times saying last November, that the country needs to move on, so let Bush have it. No, the country doesn't need to move on; Bush won the damned election, fair and square! Don't do him any favors.

This guy is as bad as the Times; both are suggesting that it doesn't matter whether Bush won; i.e., that 'he stole the election, but there's nothing you can do about it.' I look forward to these characters publishing their phony stories, because I have hundreds of files of articles downloaded, showing that Al Gore tried to steal the election, and that Bush won it, legitimately. The longer they hold back with their phony stories, the longer their supporters can say, "We can prove that Gore won, but now is not the time for that." Any time is the right time!

[mrustow]

ROTFLMAO! (Though I feel guilty about it, at the same time.)

[mrustow]

O.K. by me -- it keeps the thread going, and in case she comes up with any phony "Gore Won" stories, many of us have legit stories, even from mainstream, socialist media orgs, to bury her with.

[EllaMinnow]

I think I'll have this engraved on my tombstone for my descendants to see:

"The best thing she gave to her country was a clear Florida vote for President George W. Bush"