JoeB131
Diamond Member
A totally liberally biased movie of the events of 2000
They are trying the same playbook that got the white house in 2008
Gore wins if wins his home state of Tennessee
CBS called the election with 10s of thousands in line in NW part of Florida, still waiting to vote
Hanging chads where not an issue in 63 of the 67 counties
Its was never discussed as to why the 3 most liberal counties by far in the state of Florida had issues that were to swing that vote by over 1000 votes
I voted in Florida that year and for the life of me how something that simple could get that far out of control
The movie ends with the claims that never have been proven to even took place
People need to elect our next president for all the right reasons, and we can only pray that we can get back to the good we had as a country from 2001 through the end of the GOP congress and through 2007
I think the problem you have is that you are whining because those of us who voted for Bush in 2000 benefited from an unfair system complicated by some gross shenningans engaged in by his brother.
I for the life of me don't know why something as archaic, anachronistic and undemocratic as the Electoral College is still allowed to exist. Probably because before the 2000 election, the last time it caused this sort of problem was 1888. But that problem is always there, lying under the surface, disenfranchising most of the country.
The thing is, we will never know with any certainty who actually got the most votes in Florida, but without a doubt, Gore got the most votes nationally.
The bigger problem is that 2000 weds the GOP to the electoral college. Even though it would be in the GOP's best interest to get rid of it, they can't without admitting 2000 was a huge mistake. Even though it puts Obama 90% of the way to re-election without really trying.
the issue with eliminating the Electoral college is simple
California and New York has more people than Texas and the rest of south pretty much
This is also why Florida id so divided and many wonder how many times people in Palm Beach County reallly vote
There is no more than 1 in 100 native Floridians in south Florida and other parts of the State such as Daytona
These retirees are not poor people either. Another item in the Movie that made a statement that the "poor" ended up with the old voting machines
Palm Beach County has very few poor I can promise
Any-way your thread was done with respect, for that I thank you
I think there was bad behavior on both sides in Florida,
The Democrats insisting only selected counties to recount the second recount. Trying to get overseas ballots disqualified. And yes, the networks calling Florida when polls were still open in the Panhandle. (Although that's more sloppy news reporting.)
The Republicans did a very sloppy clean up of voter rolls that got a lot of people disqualified that shouldn't have been because they had similar names to people who were. Trying to declare results final without recounts or before recounts were completed.
And then there were the unforced errors like the butterfly ballot. A democrat came up with it, and it might have caused confusion. Or it might not have. Pat Buchanan got a lot of votes in that county in 1992 and 1996, more than he got in 2000.
Which again, none of this would have mattered if we had a national vote.
My problem with the electoral college is that 40 states are considered sure things for one side or the other. On the brighter side, living in IL means I won't have to listen to all that many commercials of Romney trying to convince me he's human and Obama trying to convince me he's competent. But why should just 10 states decide this thing?