NationStates Jolt Archive

What does everybody think of the results of the last election and the results of this election? I think that both sides were trying to rig it last year. In my opinion it comes out even. What about that election? Do you think Bush really won and the libs were throwing a tantrum, or that it was some right-wing conspiracy theory? Or maybe you think that the rigging by both sides balanced out? What do you think will happen this next year?

[note]Apologies for the layout of the poll. It's more like a multi-step survey. I also apologize to anyone who voted third-party, there just isn't enough available options to count that.

Last election demonstrated to me the value of every single vote. I was living in FL that year, and remember the difference between Gore and Bush was less than a thousand votes in counties across the state.
In the end Gore won the popular vote, but Bush won the electoral college. That's only happened..what?..one, two times in the history of the US?
All the recounts, all the investigations found Bush won Florida. That's fact. All news networks (the liberal and conservative ones) establish that.

If you were less ignorant, you would know that no recounts were done because Bush's campaign manager in FL was alson that states's chief election organizer. In other words, she was the one who decided whether or not to conduct a recount. She didn't do it becuase everyone knew that under all possible recount scenarios Gore would have won.

So it went to the supreme court. Bush won the case 5 votes to 4 because conservative justices (firends/appointees of Bush Sr.) outnumbered liberal jstices.

Republicans also disenfranchised thousands of African-American voters in FL, by finding convicted fellons (who aren't allowed to vote) with the same names as registered black voters. When these citizens went to vote, republican election "volunteers" turned them away telling them they had their name down as a convicted fellon. Just watch either "Unprecedented" or "Fahrenheit 9/11".

If you were less ignorant, you would know that no recounts were done because Bush's campaign manager in FL was alson that states's chief election organizer. In other words, she was the one who decided whether or not to conduct a recount. She didn't do it becuase everyone knew that under all possible recount scenarios Gore would have won.You think there were no recounts? God, you must be crazy. Then again, you've had three years to convince yourself that those weeks never happened. Ever hear of a hanging chad? Pregnant chad? Dimpled chad?

So it went to the supreme court. Bush won the case 5 votes to 4 because conservative justices (firends/appointees of Bush Sr.) outnumbered liberal jstices.After 8 years of Clinton?

Republicans also disenfranchised thousands of African-American voters in FL, by finding convicted fellons (who aren't allowed to vote) with the same names as registered black voters. When these citizens went to vote, republican election "volunteers" turned them away telling them they had their name down as a convicted fellon. Just watch either "Unprecedented" or "Fahrenheit 9/11".Farenheit 9/11 is a left-wing propaganda film. I wouldn't pay my hard-earned money to watch Moore feed half-truths and conspiracy theories to me. And do you think that there were absolutely no left-wing attepmts to rig the election? College students voting multiple times, trying to discard absentee ballots, any of this ring a bell? How about cigarettes for votes?