Reply #18: I've got two problems with the notion of the "Stolen Election" . . .

[NavajoRug]

1. In all of the post-election coverage, I don't think there was a single scenario in which Gore would have ended up with more votes based on the recounts.

2. The real culprit in the loss of Florida was Gore's legal team. In fact, I said at the time that the first thing Gore should have done after conceding was to sue David Boies for providing incompetent legal counsel. The way they called for the recounts pretty much guaranteed that the U.S. Supreme Court would be involved, and would overrule the Florida Supreme Court.

3. The real culprit in the loss of the entire 2000 presidential election was Al Gore himself. I predicted that Gore would win a close race, and I even had Florida going to Bush -- I simply didn't imagine in my wildest dreams that Tennessee would have ended up in the GOP column on election night.