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Originally Posted by roachboy
in the end, lebell, the facts appear to ahve been that had gore called for a statewide recount that bush would have lost.
that is why it all came down to the legal teams.
bush is in power now because he had a more aggressive legal team.
nothing more.
and it **did** create legitimacy problems for bush up front. even a die-hard bushite cannot deny that.
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This is not true. Bush also won because he had more aggressive rioters (I just love that video of Bush supporters--from other states--trying to push their way into the room that was holding ballots).
But the most important reason why he won is because he got the most votes. The statistical results from the partial recounts are far from scientific, so a few liberal newspapers claiming a recount would have pushed Gore ahead is just barely more than speculation.
By the way, legitimacy wasn't Bush's biggest problem after the Florida scandal. Look at the 9/11 report--his team didn't have the time to prepare their counterintelligence team, and surely that wasn't the only thing that the administration was behind on. Personally, I believe Bush has played the hand he was dealt very well.