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It's disingenuous to say that Gore would have won if it continued. It was basically a tie to several decimal places -- every recount could swing the balance one
by thehappypm 6y ago
It's disingenuous to say that Gore would have won if it continued. It was basically a tie to several decimal places -- every recount could swing the balance one way or the other.
- acdha 6y agoI was referring to https://web.archive.org/web/20011217183836/http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/fl/index.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20011217183836/http://www.norc.u.... The key point being that it was a much closer race, with more screwups, and he had a plausible chance of winning the single state needed to flip the result. In contrast, Trump lost multiple states by much larger margins, nothing like the hanging chads or other irregularities, and full recounts didn’t show any statistically significant discrepancies.