(Chuck) Schumer: Democrats shouldn't protest Bush win

The Associated Press via Newsday ^ | January 6, 2005, 5:48 PM EST | By DEVLIN BARRETT

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer, fresh in a new leadership role among Democrats, found himself at odds with some of them Thursday, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, over a ceremonial counting of President Bush's re-election victory. Schumer, D-N.Y., was tapped late last year to head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and began the day touting the DSCC's lack of debt heading into the 2006 elections. The achievement was largely overshadowed by an objection to Ohio's electoral vote tallies by Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, joined by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Some Democrats have complained that voting problems in Ohio, where Bush won by more than 118,000 votes, deserve closer scrutiny. Others in the party believe the objections may anger voters and make Democrats look like sore losers. "My view is that you don't hold up the election unless there is concrete real evidence of fraud. I haven't seen that," Schumer said Thursday. In contrast, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., took to the Senate floor to thank Boxer for her move, saying the government needs to set higher standards for voting accuracy.

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It marked only the second time since 1877 that the House and Senate were forced into separate meetings to consider electoral votes. The counting ceremony gained greater attention after filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" opened with a similar protest in Congress after the 2000 election. The protest by House members died that year after no senator joined the effort.

[kizzdogg]

This coming from New York is pretty impressive.

[BCrago66]

This was interesting news - was I read it 10 days ago.

[Enterprise]

"In contrast, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., took to the Senate floor to thank Boxer for her move, saying the government needs to set higher standards for voting accuracy."

Yeah, sure.

[perfect stranger]

Hillary voted against. IIRC Conyers voted against.

They only cried about Ohio because that was the only state they'd need to somehow turn the election in their favor and Boxer was their patsy.

What ever happened to that filmmaker lady from DU that Randy Rhodes talked to on the phone? I was trying to remember her name, it seems like she's disappeared.

[kempo]

I wanted the democrat leadership to bitch a fit and have all kinds of protest about the Ohio election returns but it looks like Schumer has figured out it would just make his party look more stupid than they really are. Which is pretty damn stupid.