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Ignoring the fact that every recount had Bush winning and at some point a winner had to be declared since we needed a president.
by merpnderp 11y ago
Ignoring the fact that every recount had Bush winning and at some point a winner had to be declared since we needed a president.
- cmurf 11y agoNope. What should have happened, if we weren't such a litigious society, is it would have been considered a political question, not a judicial one. Florida's legislature could have decided its Electors alone. And then if Congress considered that decision questionable, the president would have been decided in the House, and the vice president by the Senate. George W Bush would have been president in that case. And Joe Lieberman would have been Vice President.
- merpnderp 11y ago"What should have happened, if we weren't such a litigious society," Ironic given it was Gore, not Bush, who filed the suits. Bush demanded the initial recount, it swung his way, Gore started filing suits. Many many recounts happened afterwards, I think NBC or CBS (hardly bush allies) had the most famous one for objectivity, and it came back for Bush.