(February 28, 2016 at 5:35 pm)abaris Wrote:(February 28, 2016 at 3:16 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: GWB managed to win this way but only barely and against two uncharasmatic Democratic candidates.
The first election he didn't win at all. Only because Gore stepped down from making further complaints and only because a court stopped the vote counting, did Shrub manage to park his ass in the Oval Office. It was only about 500 votes in Florida - where another Shrub ruled at the time.
Yes, I'm well aware of this. I lived in the Florida Keys at the time.
Gore fucked up in that he pushed only for recounts in the counties he thought favored him. Had he insisted on ALL counties being recounted, he would have won.
The biggest issue was the damn butterfly ballots in Palm Beach county. A shitload of people who thought they were voting for Gore were actually marking their vote for Pat Buchanon.
The moral of this story is that every vote really does count. There were a shitload of people I know who lamented the fact that we could have swung the election if we had campaigned hard for Gore in the Florida Keys. But people never believe they could really make a difference in a nation of 300 million people. Any of us Floridians could have really made a difference if we had only known.
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