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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 01:32 PM
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17. He pushed for selective recounts, for one.
The recount he wanted might not have given him the Presidency, while a statewide recount would have.
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  -Did Gore fight in 2000 cali  Dec-20-07 08:01 AM   #0 
  - No. And Dems didn't fight for him the way R's who hated Bush fought for him, such as Baker. nt  MookieWilson   Dec-20-07 08:07 AM   #1 
  - To the people voting that he didn't fight at all, I think  cali   Dec-20-07 08:16 AM   #2 
  - You gotta fight outside the lines too, and that's where the Reps beat us. nt  MookieWilson   Dec-20-07 12:11 PM   #7 
  - Having fucking Lieberman waving the white flag didn't help any.  BlueManDude   Dec-20-07 08:23 AM   #3 
  - Absolutely true. I really wonder which side he was on even *BACK THEN*... (NT)  Tesha   Dec-20-07 12:31 PM   #13 
  - Well, of course Gore fought.  Le Taz Hot   Dec-20-07 08:28 AM   #4 
  - Once the Supreme Court made its decision there was no where else to go  ThomWV   Dec-20-07 08:30 AM   #5 
  - no. I believe he fought, albeit making some tactical errors, but  cali   Dec-20-07 08:42 AM   #6 
  - What tactical error did he make?  Uncle Joe   Dec-20-07 12:26 PM   #10 
     - He pushed for selective recounts, for one.  Occam Bandage   Dec-20-07 01:32 PM   #17 
        - The way I understand it, Florida State law didn't allow for a state wide recount,  Uncle Joe   Dec-20-07 03:31 PM   #22 
  - Gore had no way of knowing at the time...  Virginia Dare   Dec-20-07 02:35 PM   #20 
  - Yes, and even though the Supreme Court stopped the counting  question everything   Dec-20-07 12:17 PM   #8 
  - The Time count was bogus  JamesA1102   Dec-20-07 12:30 PM   #12 
  - He fought for weeks, all the way to the fucking Supreme Court.  Occam Bandage   Dec-20-07 12:19 PM   #9 
  - How can anybody say he didn't fight--he took it all the way to the Supreme Court  book_worm   Dec-20-07 12:29 PM   #11 
  - I thought that team bu$h took it to the Supreme Court?  Blue State Native   Dec-20-07 02:41 PM   #21 
  - Gore made one fundamental mistake...  Joe Fields   Dec-20-07 12:34 PM   #14 
  - WE didn't fight hard enough, but hindsight is 20/20...n/t  Virginia Dare   Dec-20-07 01:28 PM   #15 
  - "Nobody was willing to take a bullet for Al Gore."  Lilith Velkor   Dec-20-07 01:53 PM   #18 
     - The citizens of the U.S. really have no idea what tyranny looks like..  Virginia Dare   Dec-20-07 02:33 PM   #19 
  - Yes, he did everything he could  Hippo_Tron   Dec-20-07 01:31 PM   #16 
 

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