--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kind of like the all star game. For years one league > will dominate and then > the other. Right now the republicans are on a major > roll. In either event > fraud remains fraud. We should be against it where > ever it occurs
OK. I eagerly await your condemnation of the Gore campaign's effort to have recounts conducted _only_ in those counties most favorable to it, and SCOFLA's order that recounts be conducted _only_ in counties favorable to Gore, and under terms more favorable to Gore than those proposed by _either_ campaign. By contrast - I think John and Doug are both right, to an extent. I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but so far as I can tell, the only fair interpretation of what happened in Florida is that _both_ sides tried to steal it. The Gore campaign attempted to exclude military ballots unfairly, called for highly selective recounts in only a few Democratic areas (while chanting "count every vote" with a straight face, something _I_ couldn't have managed), and relied on a highly partisan Florida Supreme Court (the marvelously acronymed-SCOFLA) to rig the recounts. Oh yes, it also took advantage of a highly-partisan media's early declaration in favor of Gore to suppress turnout in the Republican panhandle. On the other hand, the Bush campaign tried to get military ballots counted in places where they shouldn't have been, _also_ tried to claim recounts only in favorable areas, and accepted an (at best) highly dubious US Supreme Court decision redeemed only slightly by the fact that it was slightly better than the one it overturned. We are lucky only to the extent that, according to the recounts conducted by _every_ non-partisan organization (to the extent that the Washington Post and New York Times can be called non-partisan organizations) the side that should have won (under a full state-wide recount) actually did, in fact, win. But that's just luck. Had (for example) James Baker been a Democrat and Warren Christopher a Republican, then I expect that Al Gore would be President of the United States today, and Republicans would be _really_ pissed, since the Washington Post and New York Times (assuming they conducted the statewide survey, which is unlikely had Gore won, but possible, I guess) would have had to say that Bush "should have" in some mystical sense, won the Florida votes. Which they, you know, did, in the real world. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
