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Originally Posted by moon
I don't want to start an election debate here but he didn't get unlucky,he lost he damn election fair and square. People can talk all about the right wing lies about Gore inventing the internet or his carbon footprint, but the biggest load of crap is the left wing insistence that Gore won that election and was somehow screwed in 2000.
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2 questions:
1. Who got more votes?
2. Who got more votes in Florida?
The answer to both, in case you're curious, is Al Gore. A full audit of ballots in Florida, which was performed months after the election was ratified, revealed that a
statewide recount of ballots would have given Gore the state by about 500 votes.
Of course, Gore's legal team
never asked for a statewide recount. They asked for a targeted recount to areas where democrats were strong. This was a huge mistake, because it was cynical, made them lose the moral high ground, and weakened their legal case. In part as a result, the recount was stopped by the supreme court before all the ballots could be recounted, and the election was ratified. Still, Bush v. Gore is one of the biggest head-scratchers to legal scholars out there--but that's a whole other debate.
Did Gore bungle the court case? Absolutely--not to mention that the election shouldn't even have been close. Bush was about the least qualified nominee imaginable, and Gore should have mopped the floor with him. Instead, he didn't, which meant that it became an election that came down to a few hundred votes in Florida.
So yeah--Gore really did win the election, IMO. He also probably got what he deserved in the end.