2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: OMFG. Joe Scab looks like he's going to [View all]krkaufman
(13,429 posts)Katherine Harris.
And the key difference is simply that Gore was not decrying the election as "rigged" at any point, not before Election Day, not after, and not even after the US Supreme Court pre-emptively halted recounting of votes or when the SCOTUS' deeply flawed decision ultimately gifted the election to Bush. (Even though it *was* rigged (see Florida voter purge), corrupted (see Katherine Harris, SCOTUS vote halt, SCOTUS decision) and deeply flawed (see wildly disparate voting tech).)
I *am* a bit confused by all the sturm und drang over possible claims of a "rigged" election, given the election is being rigged, though not in the way Donald Trump protests. Just look at the recent NC ruling that the NC legislature had surgically targeted minority voters.