No, actually more like the fact that Bush got more Electoral votes than Gore didOriginally Posted by Corona Gigante
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No, actually more like the fact that Bush got more Electoral votes than Gore did
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Well... 27 of those votes came under order of ol' Jeb...No, actually more like the fact that Bush got more Electoral votes than Gore did
Regardless of the outcome, I would have liked to see the peoples' voice heard...
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While Gore was the vice to the best president ever, he did NOT win his home state...
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He wasn't the best Vice President ever, that's for sure.....While Gore was the vice to the best president ever, he did NOT win his home state...
Pretty bad though when ya can win your home state
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Actually, Bush lost his home state too.....twice. Bush is actually a Connecticut expatriate. Neither Gore or Bush won their home states, but both won their adopted home states.
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Don't be silly, his family moved to Texas before he was five years old. He's essentially a lifelong resident of the state of Texas, ever notice his accent? It's NOT a Connecticut accent that's for sure.
Gore's HOME STATE is the one he represents as a US Senator, Tennessee which he lost. Bush's home state is Texas, where he has lived for most of his life and he was Governor.
How do you figure Tennessee was Gore's adopted home state? Go look up where he was born and which state he represented in Congress for almost 30 years and get back to us okay?
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I always enjoy raising Republican blood pressure with the "Bush's home state is Connecticut" howler. A significant political realignment took place in Tennessee during the 1990s, and I wasn't at all surprised Gore lost. For decades, Tennessee's moderate politics more closely mirrored that of Arkansas. Now it's moved closer to the arch-conservatism of its neighbors to the South, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. A Democrat probably can't win a national election in any of these states for the foreseeable future....just as a Republican probably can't win a national election anywhere in the northeast (except maybe New Hampshire) for the foreseeable future.
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Funny, I thought Texas was in the south, not Maine....
GWB has really spent most of his life in the northeast. He was born in CT, spent most of his life round and about new england, attended Yale, and did his graduate studies at Harvard.
He may have a cowboy hat, but that doesn't make him from Texas.
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The people's voice was heard, Bush won the election and nothing "came under order" of anyone, Bush received more votes in Florida than Gore did. plain and simple, case closed, Gore lost
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Not so much.
A complete manual recount was never issued. The Florida legislation declared a winner under what many believe to be false pretenses and the governor approved the decision.
I would have liked to see a manual recount myself. I don't often agree with the general population, but I do believe that in a democracy such as ours, the will of the people should be law, not the will of legislators.
If the votes were properly recounted, the will of the people would be done, regardless of the outcome. Chances are, yes, Bush would have won either way. However, it would have been nice to see that the people had their say.
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Can we get this thread back to the Texas gubernatorial race please?
As Kinky correctly points out in his first Kinkytoon, choosing between Democrat and Republican in Texas is like choosing between paper or plastic.
Paper: Ah looove babies!--and Jee-zuz!
Plastic: Ah looove tax cuts!--and JAY-sus!
California elected Ahh-nold, Minnesota elected Hulk Hogan.
Can Texas elect Kinky Friedman, why the hell not?
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Actually, Minnesota elected Jesse Ventura, not Hulk Hogan.
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