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The Bush presidency was my fault: I am so sorry my work stopped the Florida recount
Salon ^ | November 29, 2015 | John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University

Posted on 11/29/2015 7:09:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This reminds me, has anyone counted how many time Trump says I (also we) and gotten on him about it the way everyone did every time the head of our current administration gave a speech?

I’m not bashing him, because Trump could very well be the antithesis narcissist of what we are experiencing now and therefore could actually reverse what damage has been done. Wild ride ahead nonetheless.


81 posted on 11/29/2015 9:11:15 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Watch out! They’ll use common core math!


82 posted on 11/29/2015 9:13:26 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Oh. An expert.

Skepticism is the order of the day.

83 posted on 11/29/2015 9:14:46 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Well done, indeed.

Either I missed it at the time or had forgotten it.

84 posted on 11/29/2015 9:17:41 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Finally someone who will take the blame for everything that has happened in the last 15 years besides Bush.

From now on we just say it was Paulos’ fault.


85 posted on 11/29/2015 9:19:05 AM PST by kempster
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Maybe a future POTUS will be build lots of camps and mental hospitals and deposit thousands of domestic marxists, mozlums and “environmentalists” in them.


86 posted on 11/29/2015 9:19:27 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Alberta's Child

I agree.

I remember the night of the election when Gore recanted his statement about Bush winning the election.

Whoever talked Gore out of conceding the election had to be the people who Gore knew were going to do whatever they could to get Gore elected. There was a great book, “How Gore Tried to Steal the Election”. It was very revealing with the insider info which thoroughly convinced me the left was all in for CHEATING TO WIN THE ELECTION.

You’re right .. Gore knew they were cheating to try to win.

But, we had a lawyer by the name of Ted Cruz who went before the Supreme Court and argued Bush v. Gore AND WON.


87 posted on 11/29/2015 9:19:52 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: huldah1776
He's got no "we," he's a candidate. He talks about what we will do after he's elected.

. A test: who said the following?

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

We versus I is not a reliable measure in any case...without analysis, it's a mere statistic.

88 posted on 11/29/2015 9:28:24 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And, all of this BS goes away if we revise the Electoral College vote count. Time to dump the winner take all model in favor of the truly representative model...EV is cast in favor of the candidate winning popular vote in the HOUSE DISTRICT, and the two that represent the Senators are cast in favor of the candidate winning the popular vote at the STATE level.

The WTA model horribly discounts and disenfranchises the voters outside the major metropolitan areas, across the nation. In Ohio, for instance, in 2012, the outcome would have been quite different with a District Apportioned model. Instead, we had (once again) the voters in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and (to a lesser extent) Toledo sealing the fate of all the state’s EV. This despite the evidence that an apportioned EV would have ended up in favor of Romney over Zero.


89 posted on 11/29/2015 9:29:54 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: The Final Harvest
Cruz was a key contributor on the team, but Ted Olson argued for Bush before the Court.

FWIW, I give much credit to Katherine Harris' lawyer, Joe Klock, for arguing that, whatever else, voter responsibility begins when they enter the booth and read the instructions. This despite the humor of getting the Justices names wrong twice.

-PJ

90 posted on 11/29/2015 9:32:58 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Looks like Steven Wright(Comedian)!
Could be a “Brother”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCMjJwIGxY


91 posted on 11/29/2015 9:35:28 AM PST by GOYAKLA (One wins, when getting more than even!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Well, it was my understanding that Cruz WROTE the legal paperwork. So, while the arguing before the court is important, so is the writing of the paperwork to support the argument.


92 posted on 11/29/2015 9:37:14 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I Voted for Perot in 1992. Clinton was my fault.

(Living in CA it made no difference, but it’s a Catholic Guilt kind of thing)

Do you think Salon will publish my Confession?


93 posted on 11/29/2015 9:41:21 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: The Final Harvest
Agreed, but that's not what you posted. You said he went before and argued. I was just correcting the record for others who may read it and not know.

-PJ

94 posted on 11/29/2015 9:41:22 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Larry of the Three Stooges helped Elect Bush?

I did not know that.


95 posted on 11/29/2015 9:43:00 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Sorry .. but I just assumed he did the arguing .. since he wrote it. I never saw it written that Ted Olsen went before the court.


96 posted on 11/29/2015 9:46:26 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ralph Nader has a better claim then him.


97 posted on 11/29/2015 9:49:47 AM PST by AU72
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To: gogeo

I and we counted separately because the we is who is actually going to do the work.


98 posted on 11/29/2015 9:51:49 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The Court should never have heard the Bush v. Gore case. It was a nonjusticeable political question from the outset.

There were NO CIRCUMSTANCES that could have resulted in Gore becoming President, no matter what SCoFLA ruled and no matter what a partial recount showed.

There were some, but not all, circumstances under which Lieberman could have become Bush's VP.

The result of not following the CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS directions of Article II, Amendment XII, and the Electoral Vote Counting Act was prolonged bitterness and social conflict, all of which could have been avoided by simply following the rules.

99 posted on 11/29/2015 9:53:13 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Actually, Sideshow Bob there is wrong. He isn’t why Bush won. Bush won because he got more votes in Florida.

Every recount, even by the liberal puke media, showed that to be the fact.

So this crybaby who is being published by the failed rag “Salon” is wrong.


100 posted on 11/29/2015 9:56:17 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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