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In reply to the discussion: Geez: This picture [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)22. Thank you
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/06/yes-bush-v-gore-did-steal-the-election.html
The general topic of wildly partisan Supreme Court rulings is on everybodys mind right now for some reason. The Washington Examiners Tim Carney wants everybody to know that the Supreme Court really, truly did not hand the presidential election to George W. Bush. You can disagree with the ruling in Bush v. Gore, writes Carney, but you cant honestly argue that it decided the election.
Well, yes, you can. In fact we know nearly for certain that the recount stopped by the Supreme Court would have given Gore the lead. (Of course, its entirely possible that the Republican-controlled Florida legislature would have simply overridden the results of the count and handed the state to Bush, as it threatened to do.) But Carney is repeating a common misconception.
The myth that Bush would have won had the recount proceeded dates back to a recount conducted by a consortium of newspapers that examined the ballots. The consortium found that If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards, and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin. But the newspapers decided that this was not how the counties would have actually tabulated the votes. By the variable standards they would have used, the papers reported, Bush would have prevailed. Thus the national news reported a slew of headlines asserting that Bush would have prevailed.
The conclusion was erroneous. The newspapers assumed that the counties would only have looked at undervotes ballots that did not register any votes for president and ignored overvotes ballots that registered more than one vote for president. An overvote would be a ballot in which the machine mistakenly picked up a second vote for president, or in which a voter both marked a box and wrote in the name of the same candidate. A hand recount in which an examiner is judging the intent of the voter would turn those ballots that were originally discarded into countable votes.
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George W Bush was my President, even though I did every thing I could to defeat him twice.
bluestate10
Apr 2013
#1
For everyone of these you can find 100 of racists pictures of our current president.
busterbrown
Apr 2013
#3
Are you serious? You think King George actually WON the 2000 election?? LOL!! nt.
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#11
What about it? The "coffin"? or The picture of the Selected One? Which is more offensive? nt
patrice
Apr 2013
#15
it chaps my hide that the RW has the gall to imply Obama stole the Presidency
librechik
Apr 2013
#36