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Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:53:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> 2. The Supreme Court, which would likely be dragged into the
> adjudication of the election's results, has been demonstrated
> already to be very friendly to Bush re: election results.
I object to that on the grounds that while Bush was understandably interested in
keeping the vote in his favor, Gore only presented an alternative that was
decidedly biased in his favor (selectively recounting only known pro-Dem
counties in a clear attempt to pump the vote in his favor). If Gore had asked
for a full state-wide recount, I'd sympathize with him being turned down, but
picking and choosing who not to disenfranchise based solely on which party's
listed on their voter cards would be clear favoritism (and if he'd asked for a
full recount like he should have, maybe they would have decided in his favor).
Now, all that being said, I think the best thing for national morale would have
been if they'd decided in Gore's favor, since he would have still lost anyways.
The Dems wouldn't be able to protest without looking increasingly more pathetic
(wait, that recount didn't work out in our favor...hey, how about if we recount
'em like this!), and the GOP wouldn't have protested any longer than it would
have taken to show they'd won the selective recount. Both parties would have
walked away with at least a partial victory, and there wouldn't be any grounds
for whining about favoritism.
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| (...) To be fair to Gore, though, the contested counties were the ones that showed the irregularities, such as questionable "felon" rosters, questionable butterfly ballots, questionable voting machines, and generally questionable tactics of denying (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Well, when I first mentioned the hypothetical, it was *my* hypothetical, and now that the powers-that-be are addressing it, I'm becoming more concerned. My reasons for this are several: 1. Special elections tend to favor the Right wing, due to (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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