http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/florida2000/ en-us Wed, 28 May 2008 05:03:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022306/posts "Brad Blakeman, a very charming, intelligent spinmeister in Florida depicted in the film. He was, by his own account, the man at least partly behind "Sore Loserman," "Surrender Gorethy," "The Gorinch Who Stole the Election," The New Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022306/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 05:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840002/posts Former US vice president Al Gore on Friday criticized the "trivialities and nonsense" of celebrity gossip in the media and called on people to focus instead on issues like Iraq and climate change. Gore, who is promoting his new book "The Assault on Reason," made the comments at a book signing in New York, where he was treated to a rock star reception by more than 1,300 cheering and screaming fans. "What is it about our collective decision-making process that has led us to this state of affairs where we spend much more time in the public forum talking about... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840002/posts#comment Sat, 26 May 2007 02:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660398/posts 7:15 Mexican presidential candidate Obrador demands recount 6:17 Advisors for Mexico's Obrador threaten street protests-BBC 6:15 Mexico left-wing candidate demands recount of each vote-BBC MarketWatch.com (by Dow Jones) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660398/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:26:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1508846/posts I heard a nice lady call Rush Limbaugh today to complain about the disdain in which he holds liberals. She felt that she was a nice person and didn’t appreciate some of the terms he was using. She felt that conservatives had gone after President Clinton just as viciously as some liberals attack President Bush. I won’t go into the exchange that went on except to say that, as usual, Rush pointed out the differences very adroitly, but her call got me thinking. She was a nice lady, and I’ve met a lot of nice ladies who are liberals. When... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1508846/posts#comment Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1468532/posts Paul Krugman tries to respond today to withering attacks on his column from last Friday in which he declared that a full statewide manual recount would have given Al Gore the victory in Florida in 2000. Somebody at the New York Times may have gotten concerned about how far from the truth Krugman was straying.In his weak attempt to rehabilitate himself in his column today Krugman presents three scenarios.The first is the most important: what would have happened had the US Supreme Court not intervened, and stopped the manual recount of the undervote going on statewide?Krugman's answer is that George... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1468532/posts#comment Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468011/posts The 2000 election is still an open sore on the body politic. That was clear from the outraged reaction to my mention last week of what would have happened with a full statewide manual recount of Florida. This reaction seems to confuse three questions. One is what would have happened if the U.S. Supreme Court hadn't intervened; the answer is that unless the judge overseeing the recount had revised his order (which is a possibility), George W. Bush would still have been declared the winner. The second is what would have happened if there had been a full, statewide manual... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468011/posts#comment Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:05:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449098/posts Gov. Jeb Bush blasted a Florida congressman Friday for suggesting that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts be disqualified because of a brief meeting the governor and Roberts had during the 2000 presidential recount. An expert in constitutional law then in the private sector, Roberts came to Tallahassee at his own expense to volunteer advice to Bush as the governor's older brother tried to clinch the election over then-Vice President Al Gore. Rep. Robert Wexler, a Democrat, said that meeting alone should disqualify Roberts. "Ready, fire, shoot," Bush said Friday when asked about Wexler's statement. "Everything is off the top of... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449098/posts#comment Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:06:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1276517/posts Just because it was November, didn't mean that the Kerry camp and its network shills couldn't come up with some more "October surprises." After all, for the Democrats and their media affiliates, it's always October. No ExitOn Election Day, the early returns from the Big Media-commissioned "exit polls" were that Senator John Kerry was drubbing President Bush across the East, especially in the two states Bush had to carry, Florida and Ohio, if he was to have a chance at winning the election. Keep in mind, that unlike the network election coverage, which begins in earnest only after the polls... Intellectual Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1276517/posts#comment Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:32:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1260815/posts LAWRENCE, Kan. - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Thursday he would prefer not to face another election-related lawsuit, but defended the high court's decision to get involved in the contentious dispute over the 2000 presidential vote in Florida. "What are you supposed to do when somebody brings a lawsuit?" Thomas asked University of Kansas law students. "You hear people say the Supreme Court jumped into the last election. I find it very ironic that the very people saying judges are interfering are bringing lawsuits." "What do you think? Donald Duck is going to decide it?" When asked about... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1260815/posts#comment Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:54:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245556/posts In the aftermath of Election 2000, angry partisan Democrats vowed to do everything in their power to make the Bush presidency a failure and to defeat him in 2004 "by whatever means necessary." In the process, they've managed to undermine voter confidence in our election system to the degree that the State Department has asked the Europeans to monitor this election for fairness. They've managed to convince voters that the election isn't fair because the voting machines are suddenly too complicated for old people and minorities. There have been endless stories about Florida this year and how to avoid a... WORLD NET DAILY.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245556/posts#comment Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:58:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213962/posts WASHINGTON — John Kerry (search) suggested Saturday night that Republicans may try to keep black voters from casting their ballots to help President Bush (search) win in November. "We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election," the Democratic presidential nominee told the Congressional Black Caucus (search). http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132145,00.html Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213962/posts#comment Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:34:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170246/posts July 13, 2004, 1:41AM Kerry forms legal team to fight abuse at polls By STEWART M. POWELL and MARK HELM Hearst News Service BOSTON --Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Monday announced creation of a nationwide legal SWAT team of election lawyers to combat the kind of voting irregularities that occurred in Florida four years ago, contributing to the disputed election of President Bush by five electoral votes. Kerry said his team would take "tough action" to prevent the kind of voter "intimidation and harassment" that kept an estimated 1 million African-American voters from the polls in 2000 and prevented... Hearst News Service via Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170246/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:35:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170058/posts WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Hmm, why haven't we heard any howls of protest from Sen. Robert Byrd and other congressional arbiters of niceness over this latest bit of incivility? U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, chairman of Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign in Florida, took a vicious jab at Gov. Jeb Bush. "The governor was like bin Laden after the 2000 election," the congressman sniped during a conference call arranged by Kerry's campaign Friday. "No one could find him when they had issues as it relates to so many African-American votes that were left on the floor in many supervisor of... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1170058/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:22:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089724/posts The Democrat party has fallen and they can’t get up! 3/3/04 by Chris Pritchard In the year 2000 their goal was to Win the White House and take back Congress and defeat the House Impeachment managers, sort of a get even strategy. In 2002 their goal was to take back Congress and defeat Jeb Bush and Katharine Harris in Florida, sort of a get even strategy. In 2004 their goal is to take back the White house, the Congress and defeat Katherine Harris in Florida, sort of a get even strategy. Growing up in the 60’s I had no party... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089724/posts#comment Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:28:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956167/posts ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Democratic senators in exile may ask the federal courts to halt to(sic) redistricting in the Texas Legislature, which would allow them to return home without having to participate in the effort that would likely end with their party losing clout in Washington. On Day 4 of their holdout in an Albuquerque hotel, the 11 Democrats remained tight-lipped about their strategy to end the standoff with Texas Republican leaders. At their daily press briefing, several senators said they have to keep open every alternative, but they insisted that no decision had been made on whether to go... Fort Worth Star Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956167/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2003 04:16:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956097/posts <p>NEW YORK — Online voting, once considered science fiction, will become a reality when the Department of Defense employs its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (search) next year.</p> <p>The SERVE program will allow as many as 100,000 uniformed service members and overseas citizens to cast their ballots in the presidential primaries and general election.</p> FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956097/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:04:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/782323/posts I am working the Colorado 96 Hour Team. I have had the privilege to share the last few days working with a cross-section of Coloradans walking precincts. I want to share a little bit of that experience, and some personal reflection, inspired by your article. Like me, almost all of my 96 hour teammates are working on their FIRST election. In 96 Hour Team downtime I have asked each of them to tell the rest of us what it was that made them take time off work, or to send their kids to Grandma for four days, so they could... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/782323/posts#comment Tue, 5 Nov 2002 01:37:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/751574/posts <p>Rep. Mark Foley, Florida Republican, wonders why Democrats who in 2000 demanded endless recounts of Bush versus Gore are now silent about the disputed Democratic gubernatorial primary in Florida.</p> <p>Mr. Foley, in a prepared statement Friday, urged reporters to call the same South Florida members of Congress who were constantly on television and at protests in 2000, as well as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and ask them why they are not speaking out on behalf of former Attorney General Janet Reno, who trails Tampa lawyer Bill McBride in the wake of Tuesday's primary vote. Miss Reno is unhappy because of problems at polling places in South Florida, which was considered a Reno stronghold.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/751574/posts#comment Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:08:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/655130/posts TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) Justice Major Harding, who took part in the legal battle over the 2000 presidential election, is retiring after 11 years on the court. Harding, who wrote decisions on issues ranging from paternal rights to the electric chair, said he's been thinking about retirement for a while. The 66-year-old jurist's current six-year term was to end in early 2005; instead, he will retire Aug. 31. Harding served on the high court when, during two nationally televised hearings, it allowed Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) to recount Florida... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/655130/posts#comment Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:47:21 GMT