If anyone else besides Jeb Bush was governor of the united state of florida, would George W been elected?

Answer 1

Probably not, but it depends who would have been governor in Jeb's place, and how much influence he had over the events that happened in Florida in 2000.

Voters in predominantly black districts were intimidated and misinformed to try and prevent them from voting. Then voting boxes in those counties mysteriously disappeared. How much of that was on Jeb's orders, or carried out by the Bush bro? Jeb guaranteed the state for Dubbya, which suggests that he knew something was going to happen.

My guess is that if there were a different governor of Florida in 2000, Gore would have been rightfully elected and the world would be a much better place right now.

Answer 2

Hillary Clinton. She's an amazing lady and she handles herself assertively and intelligently. I think she would make a wonderful President. I also liked Bill Clinton and, I'm sorry but I do like Bush. He's made mistakes yes, but he's doing the best job he can. He's tough and not as dumb as people think he is. I'd like to see how well the mudslingers perform in his shoes, especially with the terrorism threat, 9/11, Iraq and now that nut in South Korea and those idiots in Iran. I don't know much about Jeb Bush but I hear he's quite intelligent and has been a good Governor to Florida.

Answer 3

Probably-- remember that Katherine Harris was Bush's Campaign Manager in FL and also the Sec. of State in FL. Talk about a conflict of interest.

She was also likely responsible for the ballots, exclusion of people from voting roles as well. Jeb probably had only a little influence on the result.

Answer 4

A better question is this: If Florida's secretary of state (and therefore chief vote counter) had not ALSO been GW Bush's state campaign chairwoman, would he have won?

I think we have a problem in our democracy in that the people responsible for counting and certifying our votes are partisan officials. We need to revamp the system so that our elections are managed by non-partisan officials.

Answer 5

Yes, assuming that the state of Florida truly counted all of the votes.
Remember that the democrats did not want the absentee military vote counted, but screamed every vote should count.
With the military vote, Bush wins, without, Bush won.

Answer 6

The Skull and Bones organization put W in office. They also put Slick Willy there.
It's a two party engine. Balance the books, spend the money, balance the books, spend the money.
The next president will probably be a Dem., just to pay some bills.

Answer 7

yes

the Constitution of the United States and federal law require that the electoral college meet on december 12th of each election year and seat those electors approved by the states.

waiting for a recount that lasts beyond the 12th isn't legal.

since George W. Bush was the apparent winner in Florida on the 10th, he received all of Florida's electors.

Btw, I live in Florida and saw the hand recount done by the Miami Herald and other newspapers. they finished in about May, as I recall. And George W. Bush was the winner of their count despite the newspapers having a decided liberal slant.


So he was properly elected. And won the 'recount' as well.
Anything else is simply "I wish it wasn't so."

:-)

Answer 8

Yes, since the Supreme Court ruled and Jeb Bush had nothing to do with it.

Answer 9

Yes, it wasn't Jeb's fault for all the confusion. The Supreme Court made the final ruling...why don't you try to blame them? That wouldn't work in your favor either though...

Answer 10

The vote count, and EVERY recount, official and privately-conducted, ALL verified that Mr. Bush legitimately won the election.

Of course, the DNC did fight valiantly to dis-allow ALLl the absentee votes from our military.

Is that "Supporting the Troops?"

Well, from the same party as Clinton, who wrote of his LOATHING of the military before he fled the US to evade the draft, this behaviour and attitude is no surprise, is it?