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Bush was duly elected president in the Electoral College and therefore he was legally the president. A case can be made that his side behaved unethically. A case can be made that the 2000 Election wasn't the best possible display of the democratic process in action. A case can be made for abolishing the Electoral College. Nevertheless, Bush was legally the president.
Sorry but that "he won the electoral vote so case closed" argument went out the window with the cons "but Clinton lost the popular vote" argument of the 90's
Leftists always affirm that Bush didn not really win the election. Are they right?
Technically yes, but the election was stolen from him due to a combination of thievery from the Florida Secty of State, gov Jeb Bush (eliminating many blacks from the rolls), an incompetent Palm Bch Cty Elections Registrar (LePore) that designed the "butterfly ballot" and non-counting of the thousands of "overvotes" that were placed in the Panhandle.
Bush stole that election. But gore should have demanded a manual recount of all 67 counties, not just cherry-pick the "blue" ones. That made him look like an opportunist. the crooked SCOTUS should have stayed out of it. But that's the way that Republicans are. they are used to playing in the gutter and stop at NOTHING to win.
does anybody know by how many votes george w. Bush won by.
I remember a very long time back in 2004. When they were pushing the young people to vote, they said "bush won by just 500 votes' i was stunned, but i am sure that information was not credible. I remember a commercial about that.
If anyone ever still believed the USSC was even one iota interested in the integrity of the law and not partisanship it was this decision right here that would tell them otherwise. The five judges who would normally tend to be against the federal government intervening in the business of the state chose to have the federal government intervene. The four judges who normally had a tendency to favor federal power chose to remand the case back to the state courts. The liberals on the court were right; the case should have been remanded. This is the most odious partisan decision in the history of the USSC.
Having said all that Bush would have almost certainly won anyways if the oligarchs in black robes had remanded the case back to the Florida courts.
Scalia & uncle Thomas also should have recused themselves for their blatant conflict of interests in their families, who all held influential positions in the Bush campaign and would benefit from a Bush victory.
]Does anybody know by how many votes George W. Bush won by.[/b]
I remember a very long time back in 2004. When they were pushing the young people to vote, they said "Bush won by just 500 votes' I was stunned, but I am sure that information was not credible. I remember a commercial about that.
At least one but less than one thousand. The number is generally not agreed upon but recounts have produced a Bush win. You'd serve yourself well to look up the info, to understand how and why the results don't satisfy all who inquire.
Those results - or that 500 you reference - are Florida votes, the Florida electorals resulting in the Bush election. Nationally, the popular vote numbers vary. But it's not the popular vote that elects a President, it is the electoral vote. Thus the Florida debate.
These things should be taught in public education. If you're not learning this in high school then you should be questioning your teachers.
Last edited by Willsson; 09-04-2011 at 11:56 AM..
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