who believes George Bush cheated his way into office?

Question

Cutting out electorates in such close elections, Al Gore should have been president.

is there anyone on this site who is not an extreme Bush suppoeter???????

so far answerman is getting the 10 points for best answer...not you other abusive people

Texas Rose now has my fav answer

I also like pfo and gingi_01's answers

I like your style fletch not bausive but factual

Answer 1

Unfortunately both sides really missed the boat with respect to the shenanigans going on long before the 2000 election in Florida. The state purged names that happened to match felons (but not birthdays, SSNs, or any other piece of data that would make it easy to tell you were purging the right person) from voting rosters.

One of the legacies of slavery in this country is that many black folks have the same surnames, going back to the plantation owners of the 19th century. In Florida, this effect is even more apparent. Unfortunately, this also meant that under this scheme of purging voters based upon names rather than uniquely identifying information also purged tens of thousands of legitimate voters from the rosters. Given the 500-600 vote margin of George W. Bush's victory, no "hanging chad" can match the real question as to the legitimacy of a victory were legal voters were turned away from the polls by the thousands due to a questionable practice of purging rosters.

Whether this would have changed the outcome of the Florida vote is completely academic and speculative, as we have no way to know exactly how many people were turned away from polls, and of those people, how the split between Bush/Gore/Nader would have fallen. However -- the entire 2000 debacle should serve as a warning to us that we must take the safeguarding of our most basic right: the right to vote: extremely seriously.

Answer 2

No one who's looked at the data. I'm no fan of Bush by any stretch of the imagination, but the fact remains that the Electoral College was been in place (and working as it's supposed to) before the election took place and no one should be surprised. Further, the votes in Florida were counted multiple times. The initial tally was completed, a second machine vote was taken, additional recounts were completed in certain jurisdictions and, after the recounts were halted and the election was over, two independent newspaper consortia performed recounts on all the cast ballots. The results of all of these counts was the same. No LEGAL scenario exists whereby Al Gore won the state of Florida and, as a result, the presidency.

Only a count under conditions favorable to Gore (which would include overvotes without either precedent or legal standing under Florida law), would he have won.

None of the other alleged instances of "cheating" held up either. Claims of intimidation were largely debunked as were claims of ballot manipulation. The butterfly ballots were designed and approved primarily by Democrats. And, according to The Palm Beach Post, which was never a fan of Bush, the "felon lists" actually resulted in more votes for GORE (because so many felons who WERE inelligible to vote were permitted to do so).

It's time to move on.

Answer 3

I do not believe that.
The electoral college is constitutional. Period. Don't like the Constitution? Well, what if it had been the other way around, and Gore had been elected by the Supreme Court upholding the decision of the electoral college? Would it still have been wrong? I doubt it.
Go ahead and give Answerman best answer. I couldn't care less. It's too bad you just proved that you're only asking a question to get people to agree with you.

Answer 4

This is such a bunch of foolishness. He won, fair and square! Get over it! Every time they recounted those hanging chads they found more votes for Bush. That's why your liberal controlled press stopped hollering for recounts and swept everything under the rug.
I suppose you think Bush was out there in the Atlantic creating racist hurricanes, planting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, blowing up levees, personally machine-gunning widows in Afghanistan, and planting explosives in the former World Trade Center.
If you do, I have a few gallons of Florida real estate you may want to buy.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The electoral college has done what it has always done. We need to thank god that we have this President. Al Gore would have been a nightmare and even if he had won, he would have already been out of office and GW would be the President today.

Answer 7

Bush won, Gore lost. Period.

And Gore wanted to throw out all the absentee votes that weren't counted yet (90% military and Republican). Gore was a horribly poor loser.

Answer 8

What? It's kind of late to be asking that question isn't it? I'm surprised you aren't asking about who's going to be elected next year, and if that awful Hillary woman is going to be elected. Well I say CONDOLEEZZA RICE for president!! Run, Condi, Run!!!

Oh and by the way, I'm glad Bush was elected to answer your question.

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Answer 9

I agree, if they were so sure that they won Florida why did they fight recounting the votes. Al Gore did win and George Bush was appointed. The rest is just a sad part of history.

Answer 10

I am NOT a Bush supporter but he won the election. Gore lost. Get over it.