[PianoMan]

Even the Times is on board!

[ladyinred]

We knew this, what took them so long? LOL!

[Petronski]

Those Betties over at DUh.com are peeing their pants and popping the pamprin tonight. What a howl!

[onyx]

Exercise in futility. Typical of democrats.

[Free the USA]

bump

[July 4th]

This is great! Everyone's swinging to our side on this, even though they could have easily written a story saying Gore "could" have won.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Be still my heart....the NY Times? Thanks for the heads up. Drudge, how could you?

The (unfinished) Ballad of Al Gore).

[John Jamieson]

I'm glad we didn't have a terrorist attack while this was being decided.

[katze]

"More than 113,000 voters cast ballots for two or more presidential candidates. Of those, 75,000 chose Mr. Gore and a minor candidate; 29,000 chose Mr. Bush and a minor candidate. Because there was no clear indication of what the voters intended, those numbers were not included in the consortium's final tabulations." from the article

Will Democrats find a way to provide ballots with a huge, red arrow pointing to proper candidate, by the time 2002 elections roll around?

Amazing the NYT would publish this, but then some facts can't be hidden forever.

[RnMomof7]

The left will still deny it..I say thank God! May we now end that election?

[Objective Reality]

The TIMES!!! Holy crap, dude. That's pretty much it, save for the thirty-odd communists populating democraticunderground.com, who are embroiled in a hilarious meltdown as the headlines emerge. Maybe they'll go trash a McDonalds in retaliation. Losers.

[Agent Smith]

This is news???

Yawn...let's move on.

[Grig]

This also assumes that county canvassing boards would have reached the same conclusions about the disputed ballots that the consortium's independent observers did

The assumption can not be justified, the decision of each disputed ballot was subjective so the whole report is meaningless, as is any recounting that tries to turn an unclear ballot into an actual vote.

[Verginius Rufus]

Somehow the Times manages to turn Gore's attempt to exclude ballots from overseas military into a magnanimous insistence on accepting votes that should have been excluded.

Besides the cases where military votes were successfully excluded by the Gorons, there are the ballots requested by military voters which never got to them. I also recall a story about some military unit in Florida suddenly being sent on maneuvers on election day (so they couldn't vote--but no advance warning so they wouldn't have cast absentee ballots).

[BunnySlippers]

It's official ... but the Jeffery Toobin's of the world will STILL whine.

[KC_Conspirator]

Hmmmm...I find it peculiar that they did not do any research on illegal vote fraud like the felon votes or all those military votes that were thrown out.

[Terry Mross]

Man, I'd hate to see this done in every red state where idiots are allowed to vote. Can you imagine how many people punched Gore then wrote his name in, too? As for punching Gore......All in all, this is good news. Wonder what the spin will be...how can they condemn their own newspaper? Probably just ignore it.

[Rome2000]

But Mr. Gore chose not to challenge these ballots because many were from members of the military overseas, and Mr. Gore did not want to be accused of seeking to invalidate votes of men and women in uniform.

LOL!

Mr. Orwell, table for one!

[11th Earl of Mar]

The study, conducted over the last 10 months by a consortium of eight news organizations assisted by professional statisticians, examined numerous hypothetical ways of recounting the Florida ballots...

Democratic theory:

When you can't win the argument ON THE LAW, bring in some statisticians and talk about hypothetical ways you could have counted the ballots.

[xkaydet65]

Regarding the claim that Gore wins by 42 or 117 if all rejected ballots were hand counted, the under and over votes, I have a query. Did the consortium factor in the rejected military absentee ballots?

Apologies if this point was already raised.

[YaYa123]

"The media consortium included The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Tribune Company, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The St. Petersburg Times, The Palm Beach Post and CNN."

I wonder how much the consortium shelled out for this waste of time and money crap. They were so anxious to discredit President Bush, so anxious to validate Gore and look what they got....no bang for their buck...Bush won.

And the other winner is.....THE NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER!!!