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I have heard that - once from Nancy Skinner, another time in the past week. Supposedly a state-wide recount would have gone for Gore - but not the one that Gore himself asked for. The recount called for by Gore would never have gotten him the vote.

Of course, if Gore could have won his own home state, FL would not have mattered.

Also, I have never heard ANYTHING about the other states that were very close, but that W would not dispute, or ask for a recount.

I just read the USA Today article (link posted somewhere above) and it mentioned that a second study was conducted to check the overvotes, but hadn't been completed when the article was published. The overvotes were ballots where more than one name in any given race was selected (not just for President), thereby automatically disqualifying the entire ballot. There were 110,000 of these and Franken may be referring to this recount for the entire state. But if a ballot is invalid because two people were picked, then they should never be counted. SCOTUS disagrees in the USA Today article.

Also, I have never heard ANYTHING about the other states that were very close, but that W would not dispute, or ask for a recount.

That was the real crisis, the catalyst being a few counties in the state of Florida. I don't really hold Gore himself at fault for all the litigiousness, I'm sure he's better than that. The reality is, hard-core leftists don't recognize the rule of law at all insofar as it interferes with their weltanschaung except when they can pervert laws or institutions to reflect their views; at that point then of course it's another matter entirely and they are always quite pleased to recite chapter and verse.

The problem with 2000 was the possibility of the entire electoral process being called into doubt, not just Florida - like it or not (and they didn't like it) at some point, voting has to stop, that's why it's called election day. Thousands of votes are always invalidated in any election, but the leftists used several classic "how to steal an election" treatises faithfully and shamelessly.

The real problem down the road would be further calls for more litigation and general mayhm to include surgical-strike deployment of high powered attorneys to effect outcomes &c. &c. as well as long term attempts of wholesale castration of the republican representative democracy via calls for electoral college "reform" and eventually, dissolution of the Senate. Not very Democratic. Stay safe.

Supposedly a state-wide recount would have gone for Gore

What does that mean? Would have? If they did a state-wide recount, what was the result? If they did not do a state-wide recount, how can anyone possibly know that it "would have" gone for Gore?