Why did we lose the White House in 2000?

[struggle4progress]

Poll question: Why did we lose the White House in 2000?

[ursi]

1. I know many Dems who jumped the shit because of embarassment over the blow j.

Some are back today, some are not.

[water]

2. Gore was boring.

[southernleftylady]

3. They wanted to bring honor back to the white house remember? nt

[havocmom]

4. THEY DIDN'T COUNT ALL THE BALLOTS

and they had machines with modems in many places!

We DIDN'T lose the White House in 2000. We put up with the mother of all muggings!

[struggle4progress]

5. I prefer to call it a coup

[Webster Green]

11. Indeed it was!

[havocmom]

12. Yep, me too, but I get tired of defending my use of the word around here

I'm pretty blunt. Trying to learn diplomacy in my old age. ;)

[TriMetFan]

6. I blame Nader 95% and

the other 5% on that the repukes had a chance to steal the election.

[JamesA1102]

7. You forgot the media

and their endless attacks of Gore.

[Occam Bandage]

8. Yes, no, no, yes, no, yes, yes.

[Webster Green]

9. You need an "All of the above" option..(n/t)

[bananas]

10. Don't forget John Ellis, Bush's cousin who had Fox News call the election for Bush

[PDittie]

13. You forgot Chad.

Not the country.

[joeybee12]

14. I think ALL choices are partially true, but I mainly blame Gore...

...he really laid over and died during the recount...come...Christopher making hsi case...he needed someone who could like as well as james Baker and get headlines.

In his defense, no Dems came out to back him up. They really left him out there on his own.

So, after writing this, I say the spineless Dems in Congress lost it for him.

My, how some things never change.

[IsItJustMe]

15. A combination of all of them actually, but I think Nader was the straw that broke it.

[Samantha]

16. We lost the White House because the Supreme Court

issued an opinion stopping the recount in Florida. It was an opinion that most legal experts condemned, as well as the 51 million voters who cast a vote for Gore. Gore won the popular vote, and that fact is often omitted in discussions on this issue.

Why did the Supreme Court stop the recount, in a 5-4 decision? Because there were 7 Republicans and 2 Democrats sitting on the Court, some of which Republicans had been appointed by Nixon/Reagan/Bush. The swing vote, Sandra Day O'Connor, is and was a Republican and today still refers to that intervention as a no-brainer. Others call it a theft. The truly interesting point is that the passionate dissent to that opinion was ALSO WRITTEN BY A REPUBLICAN, Justice Stevens, whose scathing written word scorched the paper on which it was written. In essence, he said the Court had absolutely no legal standing to intervene in the dispute but had done so purely for political reasons. He is a true hero.

[Raster]

17. Thank you for phrasing the question correctly. GORE DID NOT LOSE IN 2000.

Gore did lose the White House because of (in this order) (1) widespread rethuglican dirty tricks--voter purging, voter caging, voter intimidation, crooked machines, jeb bush, cruella de harris--remember the Florida statewide effort to elect cheney*/bush* was controlled by the same people that controlled the electoral infrastructure, to the point that harris--one of the chairpersons to elect cheney*/bush*--actually ran the campaign from her Secretary of State office; (2) a biased, partisan rethuglican SCOTUS; (3) a biased, partisan, corporate-controlled media intent on cheney*/bush* winning; Faux News and bush* first cousin John Ellis calling the election for bush*; and finally,(4)EXTREMELY BAD ADVICE and counsel by so-called Democratic strategists.

[sakabatou]

18. More than 1 answer

[Yukari Yakumo]

19. C, D, F, & G. {nt}

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[opihimoimoi]

20. The Spunky and Moxie BITCH Harris...may she rot in a fucking Jungle swamp.

[Lilith Velkor]

21. The fact that this is still even in question

is a sign that we have not learned a single fucking thing.

The entire planet will suffer the consequences of this.