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In reply to the discussion: How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses? [View all]joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Everything else follows. Gore won the news media recount (without spoiled ballots because some people voted for him and wrote his name in). Gore lost every other scenario that doesn't have him recounting every single ballot with those conditions (no ballots spoiled if they write in "Al Gore" .
This never happened, as history showed. Al Franken learned from Al Gore's mistake early on. He sought a statewide recount immediately and even took it to the courts. He and his competitor set out standards for ballots which observers from both parties would follow.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to absolve Gore and his team from the debacle. I place him least culpable, that's about it. That he didn't create a shadow government in light of Bush's illegal coup made me even more upset about it.