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In reply to the discussion: Oh Really? Looking back-O’Connor said she isn’t sure high court should have taken the "2000" case [View all]davidn3600
(6,342 posts)We are assuming that if the Supreme Court allowed the recount to go forward, that Gore would have certainly won.
From the things I have read, god only knows how a state-wide manual recount would have ended. It may very well could have resulted in Bush still in the lead.
I think what did throw the election, was the butterfly ballot in Palm Beach county. Gore lost perhaps thousands of votes because people were too confused over the ballot design. Many people intending to vote for Gore unknowingly voted for Pat Buchanan. Fix that problem and take Nader out of the election, and Gore easily wins Florida.
Gore could have also had a chance to win I think had he recounted the entire state right from the start instead of only cherry-picking Democrat-rich counties. Just because you had a lot of democrat votes in one county does not mean that is the only place errors occurred. If the GOP-rich countries lost 100 Gore votes here and a 100 Gore votes there...that would add up. He should have recounted the whole state. If in the end of counting every vote, Bush ends up winning, so be it. At least we would know the truth.