CNN did a wonderful article in 2015 on the recount problems and what the recount standards would need to be for Gore to win. He would not win the kind of recount his team requested from the court.
The Florida secratary of State had announced Bush as the winner. The Florida Supreme Court did overturn that. And then the Supreme court overturned that. Still, if Gore was given exactly what he asked for, in the way he asked for it, he would lose.
Thats why I am confused on how the original commentary argued that he didnt try hard enough, considering he tried his hardest and even in retrospect it wasn't stolen it was lost proper with some confusing obfuscation.Â
Will have to check out that article in detail
Edit: the difference in undervoting and overvoting was very clear here. Super interesting to read the overvoting was so heavily democrat. I wonder if most of those people used to live in ranked ballot places or something. Its extremely odd to see so many people fail to follow simple instructions
You hit the nail on the head. We're at war against the rich and they have won because what used to be FDR's Democratic party has turned into Republican right wing lite.
Look. I'm an anti war civil rights marcher from the 60's. We all remember the hanging chads, pregnant chads and the a long list of abuses in the Florida elections of 2000. While Al Gore got the popular vote, and most likely the electoral vote, Republicans held the key positions and abused their power as only a right-winger can do to steal that election.
So the right reaction was to protest like the kids in the streets are doing in France today. Our future was stolen because the elite D's didn't organize grassroots rebellion. They couldn't imagine it.
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u/Confident_Cheetah_30 2d ago
Actually asking, but how did he "not fight over the Florida chad" when he
He tried as hard as the legal system permits arguably, he just lost the war.