u: s actually perfectly feasible for the US variant of an "election" to be a convention of the College, Sans vote, and they choose POTUS without that.
There's no reason to believe that would have been the case in the 2000 election.
U: Except that you can't ignore that Gore's miscalculations here illustrate what a bad candidate Gore was, far more than it illustrates what a good one Shrub was. An election where one guy can and does get more votes than the other should never come down to four counties.
I don't ignore Gore's miscalculation, or the lame response of the Democratic party. In fact, that's a big part of the OP.
U: It's fashionable nowadays to look for insane conspiracies to avoid facing the obvious, but Jeb Bush has as much to do with the outcome of the 2000 election as ACORN did with 2008.
Calling the GOP's well-documented and legally established history of voters suppression an "insane conspiracy theory" and claiming that Jeb Bush had nothing to do with the outcome of the 2000 election requires deliberately ignoring history and reality.
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There's no reason to believe that would have been the case in the 2000 election.
U: Except that you can't ignore that Gore's miscalculations here illustrate what a bad candidate Gore was, far more than it illustrates what a good one Shrub was. An election where one guy can and does get more votes than the other should never come down to four counties.
I don't ignore Gore's miscalculation, or the lame response of the Democratic party. In fact, that's a big part of the OP.
U: It's fashionable nowadays to look for insane conspiracies to avoid facing the obvious, but Jeb Bush has as much to do with the outcome of the 2000 election as ACORN did with 2008.
Calling the GOP's well-documented and legally established history of voters suppression an "insane conspiracy theory" and claiming that Jeb Bush had nothing to do with the outcome of the 2000 election requires deliberately ignoring history and reality.