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The New DU. Reply #95: Be careful about precedents you set
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El Vengedor
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Thu Jan-06-05 08:52 AM
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| 95. Be careful about precedents you set |
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The votes are just not there to overturn the election. You'd have to be delusional to believe that enough Republicans would cross over for Kerry to win.
Imagine it's 2008. The Democratic candidate wins a close election and the same thing happens, but this time it's in a state the Democrats narrowly won. In a close election, the losing side ALWAYS finds irregularities they claim would have tipped the election the other way. The chances are the Republicans will still control Congress. Reread your post. What makes you think they won't use the precedent you set to overturn the election?
The standard for rejecting a state's slate of electors needs to be very high in order to prevent abuse by either side.
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