Worst US President; (134)

I wonder what sort of real Americans would meet your approval, LOL.

Dated a gal who a few years ago who's family was involved in the UAW, as were her family members. She told me that they all voted for Reagan in 1984 even though the UAW endorsed Mondale. People don't necessarily vote the way you'd think. They're not obligated to tell the truth either as to whom they voted for...(or against). It's a private ballot.

Yep. I'd have a big giant ugly windmill in my back yard.

Ahhh... yes.... the honest, brave and righteous... the diametric opposite of me and all other conservatives... the people who defend the principles that made this country great. Why, you must be talking about your progressive brothers and sisters in arms, LOL. Honesty, bravery and righteous.... they're whatever you want them to be these days, I see.

Well, at least you have a sense of humor.

Gore would have to "have taken" the election since he legitimately lost it.

The New York Times (which is no more than an extension of the Democrat Party) printed the following article after all the recounts were done:

Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote
By FORD FESSENDEN and JOHN M. BRODER
Published: November 12, 2001

Acomprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward. Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore. A close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have retained a slender margin over Mr. Gore if the Florida court's order to recount more than 43,000 ballots had not been reversed by the United States Supreme Court.

Even under the strategy that Mr. Gore pursued at the beginning of the Florida standoff — filing suit to force hand recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Mr. Bush would have kept his lead, according to the ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations.

But the consortium, looking at a broader group of rejected ballots than those covered in the court decisions, 175,010 in all, found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount of all the rejected ballots. This also assumes that county canvassing boards would have reached the same conclusions about the disputed ballots that the consortium's independent observers did. The findings indicate that Mr. Gore might have eked out a victory if he had pursued in court a course like the one he publicly advocated when he called on the state to "count all the votes."

In addition, the review found statistical support for the complaints of many voters, particularly elderly Democrats in Palm Beach County, who said in interviews after the election that confusing ballot designs may have led them to spoil their ballots by voting for more than one candidate. (my insertion: these ballots that elderly democrats were unable to understand were designed by the demcrat party in Florida)

More than 113,000 voters cast ballots for two or more presidential candidates. Of those, 75,000 chose Mr. Gore and a minor candidate; 29,000 chose Mr. Bush and a minor candidate. Because there was no clear indication of what the voters intended, those numbers were not included in the consortium's final tabulations.

Thus the most thorough examination of Florida's uncounted ballots provides ammunition for both sides in what remains the most disputed and mystifying presidential election in modern times. It illuminates in detail the weaknesses of Florida's system that prevented many from voting as they intended to. But it also provides support for the result that county election officials and the courts ultimately arrived at — a Bush victory by the tiniest of margins.

The study, conducted over the last 10 months by a consortium of eight news organizations assisted by professional statisticians, examined numerous hypothetical ways of recounting the Florida ballots. Under some methods, Mr. Gore would have emerged the winner; in others, Mr. Bush. But in each one, the margin of victory was smaller than the 537- vote lead that state election officials ultimately awarded Mr. Bush.

Now...on my next post I will play the "beat a dead horse" u-tube video.

Excellent. Your source states that George Bush won the election, either.

Oh wait... you're trying to use that fuzzy math routine where you substitute electoral votes with "popular votes". Right.

Why don't you explain to your bookie that you really won the world series bet because even though your team lost 4 games, they scored more runs.

Yep, sure enough, if you change the rules after the game is played, you can claim a win in just about any game with just about any play. But you better be ten feet tall and bulletproof because no one else is going to go for it.