Alex Small wrote: > > Keep this in mind about selling the public on winning votes or margins: > Nobody says "Bush won Florida with <number of votes>", they say "Bush won > Florida by 537 votes" or whatever the final margin was. (I say Bush won > Florida 5-4 with 50% of the female vote, 100% of the African American > vote, and 71% of the Republican-appointed vote.)
And what would the breakdown have been if the U.S. Supreme Court had left it up to the Florida Supreme Court's 4-3 decision to ignore that state's election laws? Besides, the subsequent media organization-sponsored recounts all showed the same outcome. Bush won. Get over it. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
