Reply #28: Interesting

[karynnj]

He was President during that time. I would guess he felt he had to be neutral, which I think was what he said in authorizing working with both on succession at the same time. In retrospect, he could have given the justice department a much more public role as soon as a Palm Beach government employee found her husband's name on the felon's list, when he was not a felon (and this was verified.) This was why this county did not use the list that was used in other counties. This happened BEFORE the primaries. Had they launched a fast track investigation on how that list came to be. This could have caused a spot light to be focused on FL's election making it riskier for the Republicans to do many things they did.

The Clinton justice department was better positioned to protect against the Republican theft of 2000, than Gore was to fight after the fact and certainly after the Supreme Court intervened. (they also had far more power than a MA Senator, officially down 120,000 votes in Ohio and 3 million in the popular vote - controlling no part of the government and (at that point) not even having the allegiance of 100% of his party.) The lackadaisical attitude of that era and administration were likely an unnoticed at the time factor in getting us to where we are.