2006-12-18 09:47:31 · 20 answers · asked by hjfr27 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
No one finds it a bit suspicious that the state with the supposed ballot casting issues was FL? Gov Jeb Bush.....then Ohio in 2004....easy targets...and these incidents are unprecedented. I must say, however, 2004 was a freaking landslide...Kerry is a douche. If he would have at least attempted to have the same views on any issue in the same hour it would have been a feat for him, really.
Just sayin....
2006-12-18 10:57:06 · update #1
Oh, and please do not bring that socialist michael "i'ma fatass and i come from $$$" freak into the discussion. The only thing he makes look good is McD's Big Macs.
2006-12-18 10:59:08 · update #2
Is everyone named "Michael" a socialist?! Damn.
2006-12-18 11:00:27 · update #3
The person who asked this question is not liberal, contrary to popular answerer belief. nice try tho. And i'm actually not complaining or crying about anything...it was really just an honest ? that I wanted to poll others about...that's it. Settle down. Not everything calls for a bloody, battleground debate to see who is more literate.
2006-12-18 11:03:58 · update #4
He stole it, he bought it, what's the diff....he'll be out soon.
2006-12-18 11:19:27 · answer #1 · answered by mstrywmn 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To do so, he'd have to be a heck of a lot smarter than his opponents give him credit for. Imagine, being able to manipulate national elections in 50 states precisely enough to bring the deciding votes down to one county with "hanging chads" in Florida! If he did that on purpose, he was brilliant! And then do it again, under the intense scrutiny of a conspiracy-minded opposition! WOW!
But seriously, there are many historic elections that were far closer than these. In fact, at least 33% were closer than the Bush elections. Seriously distputed elections include: 1800, 1824, 1876, 1888, and 1960. Americans just don't remember history all that well, and assume that this generation is the only one with election controversy.
If he stole the 2000 election, then Al Gore (who won the first time, according to Demo's) should have stormed back in 2004 and kicked butt. But no, this presidential "winner" didn't even get his own party's nomination.
How 'bout the 2004. Ol' triple Purple Heart John Kerry should be able to sweep into the 2008 elections without a problem. After all, he "won" in 2004. Wait, there is a problem, he isn't even considered a serious contender for the party's nomination. Doesn't add up.
2006-12-18 11:39:45 · answer #2 · answered by Houston, we have a problem 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, no. It was really close, really really close in 2000. Yes Gore won the popular vote, but some of those votes could actually be contributed by illegal immigrants, multi-voters (voters who vote more than once in the same election) and there was even a dead person or two in the mix. However, Bush did win the electoral vote. Florida voted Bush, and after several recounts, they figured that Florida voted for Gore, so Gore wanted that one to count. Unfortunately, all this recounting requested by Gore was illegal. Bush definately won the 2004 election. There were really no controversies there.
2006-12-18 10:26:44 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. While I do not agree with him, he won the election fairly. The 2000 election was luck, if you will. He won because the electoral system was in his favor. Bush won the 2004 election because the United States was at war (switching leaders in the middle of a war never works out well).
2006-12-18 12:49:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How, exactly, does one steal a national election?
For the 2000 election, that means the Republicans would have had to know that people in Floriduh wouldn't be able to figure out how to vote. They would have had to stack the Supreme Court in advance. The whole "stolen election" BS is just sour grapes.
The 2004 election wasn't stolen, either - and it was extremely winnable by the Democrats - IF they could have found a good candidate. But, like in 2000, they didn't.
Funny how there was so much complaining about election fraud when Republicans won, but this past election, when the Democrats won, not a word....
2006-12-18 09:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by Jadis 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
when will the crybabies stop crying?
he won both times. in fact,the democrats havent had a president when two elections other than clinton since FDR.
clinton never received 50% of the vote.
lets see, bush kicked kerrys ***. he won the electoral vote in 2000. he also won the popular vote in 2000 if the democrats hadnt had their friends in the media call the election an hour before the polls closed to suppress the panhandle vote.
regardless, the constitution provides that the candidate that wins the most state electoral votes wins. ofcourse the liberal democrats hate the constitution and what it stands for so they will be crying forever.
then gore took the case to court, he lost there too. ;)
2006-12-18 09:50:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I think he lost the 2000 election as the Supremes put there big nose into it (They cut off the counting and 5 of 9 were Republicans, now there are 7 of 9, 4 appointed by the Bushes) and Florida was not allowing many people to vote (Especially blacks), miscounting ballots, losing ballots, irregularities in ballot-less machines in Southern Florida, and eliminating 10,000 ballots who were claimed to be felons, many who turned out later not to be!
Gore won the popular vote anyway, and if this were a Democracy he would have been president as he won the majority of the votes cast!
Florida's 29 Electoral votes allowed Bush to win by 1 electoral vote!
2006-12-18 09:54:11 · answer #7 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Still sobbing for Al Gore, are you?
What's Gore's latest invention?
I hear he's working on an automatic ballot recount machine. Planned to have been introduced in 2000, it would have taken "bad" ballots marked for Bush, and spit out "good" ballots marked for Gore. Unfortunately for him, the prototype used in Florida in 2000 didn't have all the bugs worked out of it. All it did was create a lot of "hanging chads" and such, and Bush became president after all.
(Kind of like his dream, one night, when he dreamt that he had invented the internet ("Eureka!"), only to find in his mail box next morning a lot of spam from Republican PACs.)
Tirelessly, he has been improving the 2000 prototype, and hopes it will be ready in time for the 2008 New Hampshire primary. Things are still not perfected, however. My friends tell me that when a batch of ballots marked "Gore" was fed into the machine, they all came out with a "happy-face" emoticon and the words "Hillary for President" stamped underneath.
Stay tuned to the Katie Couric news for further developments.
By the way, a psychologist friend of mine says that the best parallel to the Gore phenomenon is Wile E. Coyote and his perennial chase after the Texas Road Runner. Watch for his new book: "Beep! Beep! -- The 2000 Election"!
2006-12-18 12:19:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, he did not steal anything. This is what liberals say when they cannot win on their ideas. Al Gore tried and failed to steal in 2000. He wanted 3 counties recounted because they were dominantly Democrat. If he were all about fair elections, he would have insisted that all counties were to be recounted.
As for 2004, Bush won again. He got more votes that time than in 2000.
2006-12-18 09:52:23 · answer #9 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No. Every recount in FL, including those conducted by leftist newspapers, got the same result: Bush won.
In '04, Bush won OH by more than 100,000 votes. About the same as JFK's plurality in '60.
2006-12-18 16:08:02 · answer #10 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Bush did not steal either election. He doesn't have that kind of power.
Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas are guilty of trying to steal election 2000. And for that they -- at least the three remaining ones -- ought to be impeached. And the late Rehnquist and the retired O'Connor belong in some kind of Hall of Shame.
2006-12-18 10:43:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋