The OFFICIAL United States Presidential Election Thread! III

[Jaguar]

It's because they want to pretend that the election is still in dispute.

[Robert]

Those absentee ballots made a difference for a few thousands. Not for 150.000.

[Nubclear]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by CyberShy
Of course it's important that all votes are counted.
But that's no difference to 8 and 12 and 16 years ago.
But why could California be given to Kerry without counting any vote? Because every sane person knows it is for Kerry. [/QUOTE

True, but the *US Government* isn't going to just give California to Kerry just because of that

Question: What would happen if Kerry conceeded and it turns out he won?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by CyberShy
Those absentee ballots made a difference for a few thousands. Not for 150.000.

Maybe not. Then again, who knows at this point?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Jaguar
Ted, we simply despise him.

Why though?

[joncha]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar

Originally posted by CyberShy
Of course it's important that all votes are counted.
But that's no difference to 8 and 12 and 16 years ago.
But why could California be given to Kerry without counting any vote? Because every sane person knows it is for Kerry. [/QUOTE

True, but the *US Government* isn't going to just give California to Kerry just because of that

Question: What would happen if Kerry conceeded and it turns out he won?

Then they'd call him a flip-flopper if he tried to claim his victory.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Tingkai


to those voters for waiting in line that long.

[Ben Kenobi]

I want to know what the big deal was with him, the whole national Republican party went after him for some reason.

Captain Obstructionist?

Good riddance!

[Robert]

Question: What would happen if Kerry conceeded and it turns out he won?

it would be a shame.
But in 1996 / 1992 / 1988 / 1984 / 1980 / etc. that was no reason to announce a winner anyway.

I seem to recall that Tuesday night 2000 that there was a 100K or so gap between the two candidates.

For sure not, 1200 or 1440 comes to my mind,
I'll try to google it up.

[Ted Striker]

Somebody educate me on what the big deal was with Daschle besides calling him a punk!

I just don't know!

[Ben Kenobi]

Then again, who knows at this point?

You don't need the precise number to do an order of magnitude estimate.

I'm sure they would have told us if there were 10 times the usual number of ballots, because that would have gotten Democratic hopes up even more.

[Ben Kenobi]

Somebody educate me on what the big deal was with Daschle besides calling him a punk!

I just don't know!

He was the house leader when the Senate was deadlocked, and defeated every republican bill.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Somebody educate me on what the big deal was with Daschle besides calling him a punk!

I just don't know!

He isn't a very constructive person. Mostly he organizes filibusters and obstructions against Republicans. Hence, they hate him.

[Robert]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/election/magtimeline.htm

2 a.m. Chaos. A sample recount turns up 19 more votes for Gore. The Palm Beach County Canvassing Board votes 2 to 1 for a full recount of all 460,000 ballots. A manual recount of all ballots, says County Commissioner Carol Roberts, “clearly would affect the results of the national election.”

this is the first thing I found. Only a 19 votes difference in 2000....!

[Gatekeeper]

Ted:

They went after him because, as the Senate Minority Leader, he was pretty much the biggest face of the Democratic Party outside of John Kerry.

In the last three weeks of the race, Thune and his backers literally *saturated* the airwaves and newspapers with advertising. Daschle, for some reason, never went horribly negative (Thune did almost from the get-go) until the last month or so. He never trumpeted the fact that major newspapers endorsed him (Thune did). His ads seemed to have declined in number in the home stretch as well, although that might simply be my perception since Thune's skyrocketed (IOW, Daschle's amount of advertising didn't change).

It'll be interesting to see if Thune can keep even half of the promises he made. He'll have six years to do so — more than enough time for the administration to ignore a freshman "follower" senator for three or so years (throwing a few bones here and there ... after all, he won, which is *all* the GOP cares about) before giving him a few more substantial bones in order to reinforce his reelection chances in 2008.

Numbers show Daschle spent $16 million or so on his reelection, while Thune spent $10 million. But Thune's numbers *don't* include all the third-party support he received. Daschle, for the most part, didn't want or get much outside help until the last few weeks.

All I can say right now is this: Thank God I'm a white man, because life's gonna get rougher for a lot of women and minorities. Just my opinion, of course. I did what I could for them, but it wasn't enough. Such is life. Now I shall sit back and record for posterity what takes place, so that future generations will know what came before them, so that they may learn from our mistakes and our successes.

Gatekeeper