At 03:29 PM 11/14/00 EST, you wrote:
>>Though amazingly, I read that there was a compromise proposed about
>recounting all of Florida, and letting the issue drop once that count is
>done. No more lawsuits, just a concession to the winner. Any news on that
>front?
>
>The LA Times apparently reported that this morning, but Warren Christopher
--
>chief of the Gore team -- said he didn't know anything about it earlier
>today. And Baker, of course, proposed his own "compromise" of having Gore
>drop his pending court cases in exchange for Bush dropping one he's already
>lost. Oh, and the recounts can proceed as long as Gore agrees to a deadline
>that can't possibly be met, meaning the old counts stand and Bush wins. <lol>
Not so fast.....
Certainly, Gore could never abide by this compromise since it is readily
apparent that to do so would guarantee a Bush victory.
Still, there is a quid pro quo here. The Bush campaign is objecting in
principle and on the law to manual recounts. The Bush campaign is willing
to drop this callenge, and accept all manual recounts which have been done
so far, in exchange for abidement by the deadline and the absentee ballots.
Essentially, this is a call of the Gore campaign's bluff on the absentee
ballots. The Gore campaign has put all kinds of spin out there about how
they might win the overseas absentee ballots. With the AP reporting that
the final Florida recount would put the margin at under 300 (it wasn't
announced as being 300 until late today), the Bush campaign essentially
offered the Gore campaign victory if the Gore campaign truly and honestly
believed that they would win the overseas absentees.
Instead the Gore campaign admitted what we most of us have already
concluded - Bush should win the overseas absentees handily, and thus, Gore
needs to find a couple thousand more votes out there somewhere to become
President.
Indeed, the Gore campaign *still* refuses to foreswear challenging the
ballot in Palm Beach County with the intent of calling for a revote. I
think that it is clear that the Gore campaign will exhaust every last legal
recourse to get the result they want.....
JDG
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