Okay, if it is hype, why is it being reported in so many news mediums? C'mon, it's Newsweek reporting it for God's sake. Newsweek and CNN and others.
That this is being discussed is NOT hype, THAT BUSH directed this, or made the inquires IS HYPE!
A Scary Thought--November Elections Could be Delayed
by blondie 61 Replies latest members politics
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Yerusalyim
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roybatty
I don't think Reagan was going to declare martial law out of fear of invasion from a central American country. I believe he was thinking about a plan to invade Nicaragua and was worried about the outbreak of protests here in the US. Kind of scary what power the president has if he declares martial law.
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Corvin
The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that the Bush administration has discussed possibly delaying the November presidential election if there is a new terrorist attack.
I wonder how long they would be delayed?LOL, it's just the shady, underhanded, saved by the bell tactic GW would use to stay seated in the oval office. Hell, I believe he would allow something like that to happen just for that purpose.
Corvin
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gitasatsangha
The Canadian invasion of Amerika has begun.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040723/ap_on_bi_ge/coors_molson_59
Please help us Jehoba, eh?
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lawrence
Corvin-
Believed that the election would be curtailed for the past year and wrote about it - one of the reasons I left America (Florida - where they hijacked the last election). These men are thugs and so few see the fact that the emperor and his buddies are drenched in blood. What a band of criminals!
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Michael3000
Look Michael, if you really want to talk about rigged elections, let's talk about St. John the Kennedy in 1960. During this election it has been rumored that dead men voted in Chicago. Not to mention the election shinnegans (sp?) done in the VPs home state of Texas.
But we don't have to go back that far, do we? 2000 was the most recent, with the selected Prez's brother being Governor of - what was it again? - Oh, yeah, FLORIDA. Let's try to stick with discussion of the problems with the CURRENT administration.
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L_A_Big_Dawg
Yes, 2000, an election that has been counted and recounted, and still George W. Bush wins.
How many times does it have to be counted before people like you realize that Gore lost the election?????
LABD
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Robdar
Yes, 2000, an election that has been counted and recounted, and still George W. Bush wins.
How many times does it have to be counted before people like you realize that Gore lost the election?????
Yes, Bush won the electoral college vote. However, Gore won the popular election.
The only info I can find shows that after a re-count, Gore won Florida:
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/opinion/3973122.htm :
Question: Who actually received the most votes in Florida's 2000 presidential election?
Answer: Al Gore. State election officials ultimately declared George W. Bush the winner by a margin of 537 votes, but during and after the election dispute, questions remained about the uncounted ballots of 175,010 voters, ballots that had been rejected by error-prone tabulating machines employed in many Florida counties. Confusion and conflict, much of it generated by partisan intrigue, prevented these ballots from being counted during the election controversy. However, in 2001 every uncounted ballot was carefully examined in a scientific study by the University of Chicago, which concluded that when all the votes were counted, more votes had been cast for Gore than for Bush.Q: Why did some earlier post-election studies say just the opposite, that is, that Bush had actually won after all?
A: They did not really say this. They reported, instead, that Bush might have kept his lead if the manual recounts of machine-rejected ballots had been completed along the lines either requested by Gore or initially mandated by the Florida Supreme Court. In these recount scenarios, not all of the machine-rejected ballots would have been included. However, just before the U.S. Supreme Court intervened, the judge overseeing the final statewide recount was preparing to announce that the recount would cover all of the previously uncounted ballots.
http://www.americanpolitics.com/2001gore.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/15/politics/main533080.shtml :
Gore won the presidential popular vote by a half-million votes in 2000 but conceded to Republican George Bush after a tumultuous 36-day recount in Florida and a 5-4 Supreme Court vote against him.
Funny how almost all the votes from the touch screen ballots disappeared in Miami-Dade county. Here's an interesting report regarding the voting irregularities in Florida :
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L_A_Big_Dawg
Robdar,
With all due respect, it doesn't matter if Mickey Mouse had won the popular election in 2000. The Constitution says that the President is elected by means of the Electoral College. If you and the rest of the sore losers don't like it then you and the rest of the sore losers should float a Constitutional admendment to remove the Electoral College. It can be done. After all the U.S. Senators used to be elected by the state legislators.
Until then...
LABD
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Robdar
If you and the rest of the sore losers don't like it then you and the rest of the sore losers should float a Constitutional admendment to remove the Electoral College. It can be done. After all the U.S. Senators used to be elected by the state legislators.
Dude, no need in calling me names just because you don't want to deal with the fact that Gore should have won the election. If the electoral college would have known the proper vote tally, Gore would have won--since, in most states, the majority winner gets all the electoral college vote. As it stands, the republicans made sure that that didn't happen.
http://jceb.co.jackson.mo.us/fun_stuff/electoral_college.htm :
- Whichever party slate wins the most popular votes in the State becomes that State's Electors - so that, in effect, whichever presidential ticket gets the most popular votes in a State wins all the Electors of that State. (The two exceptions to this are Maine and Nebraska where two Electors are chosen by a statewide popular vote and remainder by the popular vote within each Congressional district).
No need to call me a sore loser just because I want to see justice done. For your information, if the outcome had been reversed and under the same circumstances, I would have kicked up a fuss.
You are the one who mentioned the recounts, not I. If you don't want to discuss it calmly, don't bring it up. And in my opinion, there was no respect shown by your response. Do me a favor, don't preceed an insult with the comment "With all due respect."
Robyn