[IGOTMINE]

Caught off guard my a**! They're the ones that had legions of lawyers in the air before the polls closed. They're the ones that had a telemarketing company fostering complaints from the geezers. (Hmmm. I wonder if that was the real impetus behind the "do not call" list?)

[MonroeDNA]

They also projected Gore for Florida, before the panhandle voting had closed. This drove away many republicans who hadn't voted yet.

What a crock of spin.

[Miss Marple]

I wonder myself. Although political calls are exempt, I think a case could be made that after the polls close, one is no longer campaigning and calls would be telemarketing for trial attorneys.

[Rensselaer]

Exactly. Caught off guard! Talk about revisionist history. They were flying people down in planes on Wednesday after the elections. It was the Republicans who were caught off guard - they just assumed it would be a nice quiet recount, run the ballots through the machines again according to state law. Such recounts rarely change a thing, and the Republicans couldn't imagine that Gore was going to try to steal the election.