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A Little Help?---Why Bush Won in 2000
waterman478

Posted on 03/09/2004 8:53:31 AM PST by waterman478

I am looking for an article or source that outlines the facts why Bush won in 2000. I'm looking for the arguments to have handy when your typical liberal throws out the "Well Bush stole the election in 2000" comment. Can anyone point me to something? Thanks!


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2000; 2000election; algorelostgetoverit; election2000; florida; floridasupremecourt; floriduh; lyingliars; moveon; presidentbush; supremecourt; ussupremecourt
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To: waterman478
We can give you facts all day long, but liberals who are still whining about the 2000 election don't care about facts.
21 posted on 03/09/2004 9:16:34 AM PST by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: waterman478
The LORD had mercy on us! Many Saints stayed on their knees during that debacle and many Saints here on FR continue to hold the President up everyday. The coming election will be won by the prayer of the Saints - no matter how much money is spent, or who owns the media (and we know who that is), the LORD moves when we pray, by faith.
22 posted on 03/09/2004 9:17:36 AM PST by TrueBeliever9
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To: Gippers Brigade
"Bush lost his home country"

Huh? You ARE aware that the President is elected based on the electoral college, but each state is won based on raw vote count, correct?

If not, now you are.

If so, do you have a problem with that process?

23 posted on 03/09/2004 9:19:29 AM PST by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: waterman478
It was Gore who FORCED the legislative branch to make the decision. He knowingly took the decision away from the voters!

Once Gore filed a complaint with the legal system he guaranteed that the legal system would make a ruling. He elected to take that gamble. He knew that legal matters follow a standard hierarchy of upward decision-making all the way to the US Supreme Court. He started it on that path. He knew the risk. He chose unwisely.

Bush had nothing to do with making it a legal matter.

They have no right to complain about the outcome!
24 posted on 03/09/2004 9:20:27 AM PST by aragona (Gore chose the legal path and took it away from the voters!)
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To: waterman478
I am looking for an article or source that outlines the facts why Bush won in 2000. I'm looking for the arguments to have handy when your typical liberal throws out the "Well Bush stole the election in 2000" comment. Can anyone point me to something? Thanks!

Bush won the electoral vote. Florida's vote was close enough that it triggered an automatic statewide recount. This was done and again, Bush won that state.

The Gore team is the party that tried to steal the election. (If a liberal claims Bush tried to steal the election, you should say "Actually, it was Gore who tried to steal it." Period.) They wanted another recount, but this time in only a few counties that went heavily Gore. They flat out stated that they would "find" more votes for Gore and then he'd win. The Republicans correctly pointed out--and were forced to the courts by the grasping and graceless democrats--that if yet another recount was to be done, they needed to present a reason other than phantom charges of voting "problems", and further, that any recounts would be done statewide.

The Gore team did not want a statewide re-recount, just their few counties, so the fight was on from there. Ultimately a statewide recount was going to be attempted, but then counting methods were brought into dispute.

In addition to all of this, the Gore team, contrary to their braying to "count every vote" endeavored to throw out as many military absentee ballots as they could, since they knew these would heavily favor the Republican candidate, Bush.

The legislature of Florida had laws and rules in place citing dates and counting methods, and the Florida Supreme Court tried to overturn these laws and impose their own rules. Katherine Harris had a duty to follow the law and certified the tally from the mandated recount, as she was required to do, as there was no law or cause showing why the count and recount should not be the final tally.

This is where the USSC was brought in. The first ruling from the USSC was 9-0 that the SCOFLAs could not write their own guidlines, that was the legislature's territory. The SCOFLAs tried to circumvent the law again, which threatened to cause a constitutional crisis by holding Florida hostage and not being able to cast their electoral votes on the date set by Congress. The Florida legislature had an emergency meeting to discuss sending their electors even if the endless "counting" was going on. However the USSC said 7-2 that the SCOFLA decision exceeded their powers. End of story. Bush won.

Recounts by media and such afterwards confirmed that Bush won Florida.

And if you have liberal friends, mention the dem caught with the voting machine in his car. They wouldn't have been manufacturing votes in the targeted counties, would they? Or would they....

25 posted on 03/09/2004 9:25:42 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: MEGoody
Um, yeah, I'm quite familiar with the Electoral College. Bush won the Electoral College by a landslide. But if Gore "lost his home state" it could be also said that Bush lost his home country based on the vote tallies. And yes, I believe that the Electoral College is the best means of representation.
26 posted on 03/09/2004 9:31:54 AM PST by Gippers Brigade (GB)
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To: Gippers Brigade
Granted, Gore lost his home state of Tennessee, but by using that same rationale, Bush lost his home country, no?

No, it is not the same rationale.

Neither candidate attempts to garner the majority of the popular vote, and voters know it. They would run completely different campaigns if that was the goal, so to hold them to that standard is unfair.

How many Bush voters in Texas, for example, did not vote because they knew Bush had it sewn up by miles? How do you figure in states that both candidates write off as already a given for the other guy? There surely are people in those states they'd try to rally to the polls if they were after amassing the most votes country wide.

No, it is not the same.

27 posted on 03/09/2004 9:34:05 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: VRWCmember
He won because the democrat vote fraud machine underestimated the number of fraudulent votes needed to deliver Florida to algore.

That is a very good summation. Twice.

5.56mm

28 posted on 03/09/2004 9:37:12 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Gippers Brigade
Bush won the Electoral College by a landslide

Huh?

29 posted on 03/09/2004 9:43:50 AM PST by TomB
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To: Publius; All
THANKS.

YOUR POST HAS ACTUALLY contributed substantively toward my finally copying and pasting the most potent docs fromt he links into MS WORD and printing them off both sides of the paper with color emphases . . . to hand out to those which a shred of fair mindedness who'd otherwise be destined to vote for Kerry.

I think I will have 4-5 docs gleaned and printed off before I'm finished.

Perhaps others would consider doing the same.

Blessings,
30 posted on 03/09/2004 9:58:51 AM PST by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: keithtoo
Even CNN says, imagine that!

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.ballots/stories/main.html
31 posted on 03/09/2004 10:07:52 AM PST by Gypssy (Smart, Womanly and Conservative! :-))
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Thanks. If I have space at the end of a doc, I may add your post to it in my handouts to friends and associates. I assume permission!

Blessings,
32 posted on 03/09/2004 10:10:33 AM PST by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: waterman478
Another detail to consider with regards to the 2000 election.

The national count (popular vote) came down to 0.52% more votes for Albert Gore Junior. That is just over 1/2 of 1%.

That number is well within the margin of error. In the absence of a national recount (of every county) we will never know who "really" won the popular vote. Some states certified their vote totals for the Presidency before all of the absentee ballots came in. Since their states were not in contention, it does not affect the outcome of the election (the electoral votes would still go to the same candidate). Generally a state will accept absentee ballots up to 2 weeks after election day (all must be postmarked on or before election day). The states that certified their total before then probably trimmed some vote totals.

I don't bring up these absentee votes because I "know" they would put Bush over the top in the "popular vote", but the possibility exists (especially since absentee ballots tend to favor Republicans).

Certainly there are voting irregularities that were tolerated in the "popular vote" totals. A number of college students have admitted to voting for Algore at home and in their college town. Other college students admitted to voting in the same town several times (St. Louis?).

Even accepting the "popular vote" total as genuine, it is like tossing a coin to see heads or tails and the coin landing on the vertical side.

Now take that same analogy and that is Florida. The left is so certain that George W. Bush did not win Florida by 500-3000 votes. Why? Because the vote was "close"? Nationally it was close yet the left never disputes those numbers.

Florida is the state where the vote was the closest (although some other states were close enough that they had automatic recounts kick in). Florida is where that coin toss leaned a little more in George W. Bush's favor.

A look at the "Bush County" map shows all of the counties (in red) that President Bush won in the United States.

Albert Gore won in high density areas (perhaps because that is where "knock and drag" can be counted on to turn out the vote). The founders realized that a few populous areas could control the fate of America. We employ the Electoral College to make things "fair".

Every now and then the left cries how we need to do away with the EC. Let's do away with 2 Senators for Rhode Island and Delaware too. Texas and California need more Senators. Oh wait, that would describe how representation is determined in the House of Representatives.

The Senate gives all states equal representation regardless of land size or population.

If there was no Electoral College, EVERY state would have had Floriduh type recount lawsuits going on. Imagine the pandemonium. Imagine the cost.

33 posted on 03/09/2004 10:15:10 AM PST by weegee ('...Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage.')
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To: Gippers Brigade
Hiya newbie. Is this post "for the children", too?
34 posted on 03/09/2004 10:15:17 AM PST by Denver Ditdat
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To: Gippers Brigade
TROLL?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/site/user-posts?id=131833
35 posted on 03/09/2004 10:21:40 AM PST by weegee ('...Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage.')
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To: Quix
Permission granted. It is stuff I have learned here on FR.
36 posted on 03/09/2004 10:22:57 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: weegee
TROLL?

I'd bet on it.

The statement "Bush won the Electoral College by a landslide" is so utterly uninformed that he must be from DU.

37 posted on 03/09/2004 10:34:50 AM PST by TomB
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To: cyncooper
How many Bush voters in Texas, for example, did not vote because they knew Bush had it sewn up by miles? How do you figure in states that both candidates write off as already a given for the other guy? There surely are people in those states they'd try to rally to the polls if they were after amassing the most votes country wide.

Exactly. I almost didn't even bother to vote at all because I was pressed for time and I live in NJ. But, I did find the time, and did vote anyway. Presidentially, my vote did not matter. The converse of this is not true because the solid GOP states have far less population then the Rat states like the festering puss-hole I live in called new Jersey.

Elections decided by popular votes would be conducted completely different.
38 posted on 03/09/2004 10:40:28 AM PST by motzman (Kerry: His slogan is a slogan about the inadequacy of slogans.)
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To: Publius
um, as we say in the south, "do whut"?

Your rationale escapes me.
39 posted on 03/09/2004 10:40:40 AM PST by rootntootn
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To: TomB
Here's what "Gipper's Brigade" has to say about himself:


Gippers Brigade
Since Jan 9, 2004

view home page, enter name:
here for the children....

I'm with you. He's a Moby troll.

40 posted on 03/09/2004 10:41:31 AM PST by Denver Ditdat
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