Chris Lehane: DWI Story Cost Bush Popular Vote

NewsMax.com ^ | Wednesday June 19, 2002; 12:19 p.m. EDT | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Clara Lou]

Chris Lehane is a little puke.

[thucydides]

So like the 'rats. Pull out a last minute smear about a long-ago incident, and rely on the media wing of the party to blow it up. Count on the public (dumbed - down courtesy of the "education" wing of the party) to lack perspective, thus overlooking that only shortly before they were looking at something really worrisome, namely Al Gore in live debate confabulating a wholly false story (about his personal involvement in some Texas weather emergency). Ahhh, democracy!

[DoughtyOne]

Y A W N . . .

[hchutch]

FYI.

This fits with the theory I have. The DWI story probably was as big a factor as the number of evangelical Christians who may have sat 2000 out.

[Carolina]

Aww, poor Cwissie LeHeinous looking for some rewevance.

[Henchster]

"It was a very close election. All of our internal polls show that it was literally a dead heat,"

Let's see, this is coming from that faggy little twerp Lehane, so we'll turn the de-spin-erator loose on it:

"It was not a very close election until we rigged the polling stations. All of our internal polls show that it was literally a dead heat, and then some senile senior spiked the Buchanan chad!"

[Kevin Curry]

Truly gifted and cunning criminals, such as Bill Clinton, can evade arrest over and over again.

[mewzilla]

Uh, Chris. Voter fraud gave Algore a good many of the popular votes he supposedly got. While Algore, Joe, and the DNC denied many in the military their right to vote.

Word to the wise, Chrissy: You really don't want to go there...

[Paul In Cape Two]

Separated at birth

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Tom Connolly.............Fire Marshall Bill

[Nonstatist]

And by the way...does it really matter now? Bush is the president.

Probably not, I can't see how dragging this up again in '04 is going to help them, although theyll try something having to do with "old stuff". This is no more interesting than Gores pot smoking when he was a reporter, but I wish Rove had let this out months earlier .. Oh well.. here's hoping Gore runs again.

[billhilly]

I don't know why people would have a problem with truthful facts about a candidate being revealed...................... As opposed to untruthful facts?

[colorado tanker]

Chris, how about a beer just to show there's no hard feelings? Have an ice cold glass of Butt Head Doppelbock (Tommyknocker Brewery, Red Zone).

[eureka!]

As discussed at the time, it and the network's early calls. The vote fraud by the Rats also padded some numbers as well. As to the DWI, it was the presshole's "why didn't W tell us, can he be trusted?" mantra for 4 days. In short, they raised a Clinton question as to W's honesty and it almost worked. Zogby picked the 2-1 break for Gore by undecideds, hence his accuracy. Too dang close for comfort, IMHO....

[Quilla]

Although almost two years have passed since this DWI story broke, I seem to remember that Lehane's sister had a hand in this last ditch democratic leak to sway votes.

[savedbygrace]

Chris Lehane is a little puke.

You forgot slimy.

[Ann Archy]

Didn't LeAnus's sister work in the courthouse where these papers were filed???

Demcrats would KILL to win...and have. And vote fraud!!! It's their speciality!!

[berned]

I've always believed that you can prove the effect of the DWI story thru the votes of Oregon.

Oregon was mail-in only. The ballots they opened up and counted on Election Night, reflected the votes that had been mailed, perhaps, two days prior to election Day. Then, more ballots trickled in, which reflect ballots cast in the last two days before the election.

By comparing the percentages, you can tell if the DWI story had more negative effect on Bush votes IN THE LAST TWO DAYS prior to the election, than those cast and counted by Oregon on Election Night.

[KC_Conspirator]

"It was a very close election. All of our internal polls show that it was literally a dead heat," the former top Goreman added. "I think there was a small percentage but a critical percentage of people who were literally themselves up in the air until the last 24 hours."

Lehane continued:

"And when the DWI story broke, for a lot of people who were on the fence trying to figure out which way to go, that sort of pushed them to towards Gore. They had real reservations about Bush's judgment and whether he was up to the job."

The reason there were so many "undecideds" is that the media kept on pushing the myth that the "undecideds" were the new new, cool position to take. Most of these people had huge reservations about voting for Algore, even though the media told them to do so night and day. Since that did not work, this story about "undecideds" kept on getting pushed just so these people would not commit to Bush. So when this DUi story broke, alot of these people bought the media line. Couple this with massive vote fraud not sen since 1960, then you have Bush losing the popular vote.