Why can't the Dems get over the fact that W spanked their boy in 2000?

Question

7 years have passed and they are still whining about it. Amazing!!

Answer 1

It didn't take long for you to reel in a big whiner, did it?

How is that recount going, btw?

Answer 2

spanked? i think it was less than 600 votes. and it was obvioulsy rigged with the help of Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris. the recount was arbitrarily stopped when Bush took the lead. it is total bullshit and every citizen should be outraged. there is no reason our voting system is privatized with no paper trail.

i haven't been whining about it, i'm just answering your question. John Kerry is a tool just like Bush so it wouldn't have made much difference. but spanked? not quite. more like eeked out a victory with a hand from the Supreme Court.

Answer 3

They bashed reagan for 8 years even though Reagan won 90% of the electoral votes.

It questions the mental ability of Dems. Right?

Answer 4

GWB won 5-4 he got 5 activits judges to vote for him

Answer 5

YOU ASKED FOR IT

One of the first indications that something was wrong came early on election day. Thousands of African-Americans who had voted in previous elections discovered that their names were missing from the voter rolls. Investigators later uncovered irrefutable evidence that exposed an elaborate strategy where thousands of Democratic voters were purged from the rolls. These voters were disproportionately African-American.

The evidence shows that Governor Jeb Bush, Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, and other Republican state officials ordered the manipulation of a list of former felons to include thousands of legitimate voters who had no criminal history. In Florida, ex-felony offenders lose their right to vote for life. But the manipulation of this list denied thousands of legitimate voters their franchise. In an election that was determined by 537 votes, these purged voters would have reversed the outcome.

The drama of the 2000 Presidential Election had other chapters too. The day after the election, a startling picture emerged. George W. Bush was ahead by a razor-thin margin. But a disquieting number of ballots, 175,000, went unread by the ballot-counting machines. The standard procedure in such situations is to conduct a manual recount. However, no complete recount was ever conducted. Instead, there was a 36-day battle in the courts, the streets and the mass media surrounding these unread ballots. The Bush campaign was determined to stop any recount, while the Gore campaign petitioned for manual recounts in only four heavily Democratic counties.

In one of these counties, Miami-Dade, Republican staffers from around the country staged an unruly protest. That protest intimidated election officials and they abandoned the recount. Meanwhile, a remarkable courtroom drama played out. Attorneys for Al Gore appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, which eventually ordered a manual recount of the state’s undervotes; votes in which the machines interpreted the voters intent as having cast a vote for no presidential candidate. In turn, the Bush team went directly to the federal courts to halt this effort. Their aim was to have this case heard before the United States Supreme Court.

In the end, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Florida Court, halting the recount and casting doubt on the outcome of the 2000 Presidential Election.

A year later, a consortium of U.S. media organizations published the results of an exhaustive study of all of Florida’s unread ballots. The consortium concluded that had all these ballots been counted and the discernable votes been tallied, Al Gore would be the 43rd President of the United States.

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is a cautionary tale, warning us that we must insist our elections be conducted in a manner above reproach, that all legitimate voters may exercise their franchise, and all legal votes must be counted. Anything less undermines our faith in democracy.

Answer 6

Spanked like a red-headed step child

Answer 7

As a Democrat, I agree with you, get over it. However, I don't hear people complaining about GWB winning, I hear people saying that they want a change to our voting system.

Answer 8

because they didn't...Gore won the vote of the people....he only lost out because of an archaic electoral college and a highly questionable supreme court involvement and decision, and a very suspicious vote count in Florida....Gore won more votes than Bush did....the voice of the people was not heard.

Answer 9

They only believe in the constitution when it benefits them

Answer 10

wake up its 2007
How about 2006
I can't remember
I can't recall