did Pres. Bush steal the 2000 & 2004 elections?

Question

there is a video on google videos about the votes not counted in FL, it makes you wonder how did president Bush steal the election, here is the link

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6164809897767438853&q=banned+bbc&total=271&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
check it out. i know its been almost 8 yrs but i wish we could know what really happened.

Answer 1

No. And internet videos don't do much for me. Anyone with a computer and software can come up with just about anything that the easily convinced will believe. Bush won in 2000 because he got more Electoral College votes, not because of any great misdeeds in Florida or any other state.

He won easily in 2004. Why that is even an issue is beyond me.

Answer 2

cuz,

I have seen this before. It is a re-run and re-hash of past reports. It is not necessarily wrong - or correct. I have read a lot about it, as have many people. My conclusion happens to coincide with the findings of the major newspapers joint quest for an answer after the Florida debacle in the 2000 race. They found that Bush would have won had a count-off have been conducted. Not by much, but won at any rate. There were reports of blocking of voters at or near the polls at that time. My recollection is that the major reports centered on a couple of counties whose voting officials happened to be Democrats. Mistakes perhaps - illegality or stealing the election - no.

Answer 3

This will always be haunted by the fact that his swarmy brother was governor of the state that just happened to botch it's election process. For the first time, the well oiled machinery of America's voting mechanism failed. It would have been less troubling and a little more "believable" had the recount been required by a state not already stained by the name "Bush."

It is distressing that this individual was elected twice. He's not talented enough to be president. I know that the average poster on these forum was just being born or potty trained when Papa Bush was president from 1989-1992, and although he was a decent president in terms of international relations, America during that 4 year period was on the verge of convulsions nationally. you should have gotten a whiff of our then vice president then, Dan Quayle. Shudder.

As for 2004, he road on the coattails of the fact that we had been attacked in a cowardly and vile manner. Sadly, Bush surrounded himself with people like Donald Rumsfeld and the token Condoleeza Rice (did she resign or die or something-she's become invisible?) with the resultant quagmire that only people with lucrative defense contracts are enjoying.

This is a sadly failed strategy. Of course we must address the threat of terrorism, but after we pounded Irak and Afghanistan, not only is the Taliban resurgent, but what will we do about Syria, Iran, Russia and all other cells of anti-Americanism? How could I have left out the guilty and decadent Saudi Arabians? They are likely the one's that financed Islam's assault on America and are likely paying the rent for Osama bin Laden's apartment in Moscow, or where ever he is residing.

The apple never falls far from the tree-as the sheep, so the lamb.

Answer 4

It goes much further than that. Pat Buchanan filed complaints against the Bush camp for election fraud in the primaries leading up to the 2000 election. Even in the recent Republican straw pole in Iowa there were complaints filed over the voting machines and their lack of a paper trail.

If republicans are committing election fraud against other republicans, what makes you think they wouldn't do it against a democrat? Our entire democratic process has been tossed in the gutter. Hail to the thief.

Answer 5

What really happened is that there was a massive recount of the votes in Florida. This was done even though Gore only wanted selected areas recounted. In the end Gore lost the popular vote in Florida and because of that he lost the electorial college votes from Florida. With the loss of those votes he lost the electorial college and thereby lost the election.
Kerry just plain lost and it was the democrats who were playing tricks in heavily republican areas.

Answer 6

we know too much about diebold voting machines and their "margin for error" -- i find it fascinating diebold also makes atms that have no margin for error. we know about the press being purchased by the republican party to swing everything away from gore and kerry. it doesn't take a rocket scientest to realize bush couldn't win a debate with the average kindergarten drop out.

i still use foreign press. if you want to know what is going on in the united states learn another language. abc,cbs,nbc, fox, cnn -- none of them cover it.

oh bush didn't steal it -- it was paid for. god bless america where anything can be had if the price is right.

Answer 7

Get over it...you are just sad b/c the person you voted for lost...i know plenty of people that voted for him in both elections.....I think in 2004 the American public realized that John Kerry had no plan for terrorism and that was what was on the minds of the population when they voted!

Answer 8

Sore losers are we?