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The weird thing about this whole article is the idea that if Gore won the court case, that would have automatically caused his elevation to the presidency. The difficulty here is that no one seems to remember the course of events in Florida. Florida's constitution provided for the State Secretary of State certifying the election, with a provision for recounts if the original count was too close to call. It also provided a deadline, with the state's electoral votes going to the winner of an all-or-nothing vote in the State legislature. Gore's difficulty was that the Republicans controlled the legislature in question, so a vote there was sure to be a defeat. As a result, Gore had to sue to get an indefinite extension to the election recounts, hoping that at some point one of them would result in a majority for him. He would then, of course, try to convince everyone that there was no need for any more recounts, and that (of course) they'd extended things past the deadline far enough.
The problem with this is that, if my memory serves correctly, Bush won that recount too. I seem to remember that one of the Florida papers paid to have the second recount finished, in the sure and certain hope that Gore would win it, and that they would have front page headlines certifying that the Supreme Court had hijacked the election for their Republican buddy. When the recount was done, however, Bush won it. As a result, the article recounting this was buried somewhere way in the back of the front section of the paper.
None of this undercuts the pure comedy of Al Gore catching Al Qaeda (both Als, maybe that had something to do with how he found them?) solving Global Warming, and otherwise fixing the country when he's elected president. It's a wonder she didn't have him curing cancer, finding the grail, and writing the Great American Novel in his spare time.
Comment Posted By David Nicholas On 2.04.2007 @ 14:26
