Reply #10: But what could they have done?

[trotsky]

A lot of people criticize Gore & his team for not fighting hard enough. But once the Supreme Court has spoken, that's it. Highest court in the land, as they say.

IMHO, two big mistakes were made.

1) The Repukes had the machinery in place long before election day. We should have been on top of the errors in the felon purge. We should have caught the butterfly ballot. We should have been working to make sure the election was going to be clean. Democrats in Florida had better be busting their humps leading up to election day 2004.

2) The instant the call was made for *, the Gore camp should have demanded a FULL state-wide recount. That was their right by Florida election law. Not just in the counties that preferred Gore - that made us look weak and petty, like we were trying to stack the deck. Gore, as was shown later in the media review of the ballots, would have won any statewide recount, especially one that counted the LEGAL overvotes.