99.9% reporting, Gore down by 569 votes in FL.
3,000 foreign resident votes (mostly) military left to count, plus the
remaining 0.1%.
I find it amazing that the networks are so stupid. I saw the results
coming in, and called their first FL mistake very early. When they
finally called FL for Bush, I was looking at county-by-county numbers that
showed that all the remaining votes were in solid Gore country. If I can
do it, why can't they.
JDG
At 02:10 AM 11/8/00 -0600, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
>JDG wrote:
>
>> George W. Bush has been proclaimed the winner at 2:21 am EST. After
>> initially predicting that Florida would vote for Gore, after 97% of the
>> precincts were counted, Bush was ahead, giving him one more electoral vote
>> than he needed to become President.
>>
>> Wow.
>
>It was pins and needles for me - I literally wasn't sure how the race would
>end until the last 30-40 minutes. While I'm not terribly pleased that Bush
>won, he in no way claimed a mandate, which, combined with the Senate and
>House results I saw, will make it hard for him to enact anything truly
>horrid.
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>The last figures I saw indicated that, like Perot in '92, Nader served as a
>spoiler, taking key votes away from Gore in several states. Guess that's
>payback for the '92 election, eh?
>
>Anyone got figures for voter turnout this election? I saw estimates of
>about 61% early on - surprising, considering how apathetic we were told we
>were for so much of the election.
>
>Adam Lipscomb
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