A newspaper survey done afterwards shows that Florida in 2000, completely recounted, would have had a several thousand vote margin in favor of GWB.
That kinda of matches my recollection when I posted to a Freeper who thought Gore might have won if the whole state was counted. I remember some Lib reporter claiming that when he investigated, even if the whole state had been recounted, the votes would probably have come in at least at the same margins for Bush. I did read of the ‘several thousand vote margin’ accounts that you had mentioned as well as you jogged my memory of the “newspaper’ survey!