http://www.nytimes.com/images/2001/11/12/politics/recount/index.html

Howie's been steeling sips a Kool-Aid ....

Funny, isn�t it, how all the irregularities happened in states with Democrat elections directors and majority-Democrat election judges.

Oops. That should have read,

Funny, isn�t it, how all the irregularities happened in counties with Democrat elections directors and majority-Democrat election judges.

We morons are entitled to call each other morons.

as you can see by the comments, there are to many irregularities and of course the bush family can�t be trusted�if his brothere didn�t run the state and if you didn�t have a highly partisan secretary of state handling things maybe we wouldn�t question so much!

Funny, isn't it, how all the irregularities happened in states with Democrat elections directors and majority-Democrat election judges.

Moron.

If the over-votes had been counted, Gore would have won.

Over-votes have never been regarded as valid, since with the secret ballot it is impossible, absent psychic powers, to determine the intent of the voter.

To argue that the over-votes should have been counted amounts to altering the rules for determining the outcome of an election after the election has taken place.

And that makes Rodney's "coup d'etat" rhetoric a bit less of a stretch.

What in the Hell is wrong with these people?

Link.

Though, I prefer my original thought on the matter at the time, which was that the Florida election effectively ended in a tie, and the Supreme Court acted as a tie-breaker.

Yes I do know that using the term "coup d'etat" is a bit much, but I've had a great deal of glee in crafting and using this Ann Coulteresque term as an offset to the overabundant use of use of "My god they're stealing election" by liberals. I also use it as my way of showing that SCOTUS didn't select the president, they just prevented something other than the current legal election process from selecting him.

I think "coup d'etat" is a bit much when you consider that Gore was the popular vote majority pick for president.

James,

While I generally agree with your sentiments, my memory of the media recounts is a bit different. I'll have to go back and take a look, but as I recall it the media recounts showed that if votes had been recounted in Florida the way Gore wanted (just a few counties), then Bush would have won, but a recount of the entire state (as the Bush camp pushed as an alternative if recounts were allowed) would have made Gore the winner. I might be mistaken, though.