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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
1) you are wrong.
2) years later the count was proven for W.
3) algore was trying to steal an election, which we all now know is bad. You didn’t know it at the time, but I did.
4) algore Prez would have left this place a train wreck.
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I think it actually all comes down to hanging chads. The count was close enough so how one interpretted a number of thousands of challenged votes would determine the outcome. Unlike this time, I think most of those were good challenges - there was something about the ballots that rendered them potentially ambiguous. It ended in a very bad way, with an explicitly partisan Supreme Court decision. But it did end.
Gore was a grown up, and there would have been significant continuity on almost all fronts. We all know the discontinuity on the national security front may have played a role in the government missing signals about 9-11, we all know the excesses of Bushes tax and economic policies and the laxness of his regulatory policies (and possibly also the laxness of Clinton's regulatory policies) contributed to the recession at the end of his term. And that's not even getting into Iraq II, which had a lot to do with Bush's Daddy Issues and little to do with sound foreign policy. Of course Gore would have made some mistakes, too, but Bush made some pretty big ones.
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