Since he's still the Last Elected American President, does this make him ineligible to run as a candidate in the upcoming Former/Fake United States elections?
2007-10-29 04:04:00 · 5 answers · asked by Enigma 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
EnviroDude...your answer is seriously flawed because Bush was never elected, he was "appointed" by the supreme court. So yes that makes Clinton and Gore officially still the last elected presidents.
2007-10-29 04:23:37 · update #1
Perdend...Thats not true. Under closer examination you will find that a partisan supreme court did hault the recounts but under the 8 recount scenarios had Bush winning 3 and Gore winning 5 of those. The recount was stopped when the margin of difference was down from 2000 to something like 537 votes in the democratic counties in question. Besides that the recounts were being oversaw by republicans, the secretary of state and the governor.
2007-10-29 04:51:29 · update #2
So yes the partisan supreme court selected George Bush as our new POTUS
2007-10-29 04:55:38 · update #3
Al Gore can still run for President yes, he would be re-elected in a landslide
2007-10-29 04:15:02 · answer #1 · answered by Spartacus 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remember a few things:
(1) We have an electoral college in the U.S., which means that even if someone wins the popular vote, what matters is whether the candidate receives a sufficient number of electoral votes. If you don't like that, get the US to amend the constitution to get rid of it!
(2) The Secretary of State of Florida certified the election results; these results were challenged and the subject of a lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court. They made the final decision regarding whether the counting mechanism created by the Florida Supreme Court violated the Equal Protection Clause. We have process in this country, and it was used. You may think the Supreme Court was wrong (it most definitely was); you may not like the results (I sure didn't); but the process provided everyone an opportunity to be heard, and a decision was made. We have to respect that decision.
(3) President Bush legitimately won against Kerry -- getting a majority of electoral votes and a majority of the popular vote. Whether we like it or not, he was the winner.
(4) if you don't like what's happened -- VOTE this cycle; DONATE money to candidates; VOLUNTEER for campaigns; don't be cynical, but make a difference.
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EDIT:
Bush was not "appointed" by the Supreme Court. It only decided whether the "hanging chad" recount standards violated equal protection and haulted the recount.
And, as noted by a number of studies, Gore still probably would have lost under just about any recount of the most disputed counties:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12623-2001Nov11.html
2007-10-29 11:23:45 · answer #2 · answered by Perdendosi 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes he can because he is a US Citizen over the age of 35.
Al Gore was never "elected" President by anybody. George W Bush was "elected" by a majority of the 535 Constitutional "electors" chosen by law in their respective states on December 18, 2000.
2007-10-29 11:46:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
HA HA. Your question (if a serious one) has a flaw - and that is that Al Gore did not win Florida. Every recount showed Bush the winner (the ones that were conducted by all the lying liberal media outlets).
Now, the funny thing is, if the democrats would have forced Bill, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Clinton from office for obstruction of justice (the charge he lost his law license over), then President Al Gore would have likely carried his home state of Tennessee and would have been sitting in DC when the Arabs flew the plane into DC.
2007-10-29 11:11:14 · answer #4 · answered by Christmas Light Guy 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Sure. If he is a U.S. born citizen and is over the age of 35 he can run. lol. He won't and doesn't stand a chance. Thankfully.
2007-10-29 11:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by en tu cabeza 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋