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The difference is that with Bush you have hanging chads and a court decision that after the votes were counted would have probably come out differently, and a c
by hobs 5y ago
The difference is that with Bush you have hanging chads and a court decision that after the votes were counted would have probably come out differently, and a concerted political effort to turn that to their advantage.
The republican party just literally spent months on questioning the election in places like Arizona with no evidence of any fraud, and there's plenty of documentation on how (almost always republican) politicians use lies to get people to not vote: https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/DeceptivePracticesReportJuly2012FINALpdf.pdf https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Dece...
Basically, if you want to argue that its a "he said, she said" thing, you're going to need to come to the table with receipts about it, and trump is just completely full of shit on a level that's untenable and weirdly turned into this January thing where we almost had lawmakers killed.
- slowmovintarget 5y agoNope. They finished the recounts. Three times. None of them came out in Gore's favor.
- hobs 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida#Florida_Ballot_Project_recounts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia... Here ya go - seems like that's incorrect.
- Lascaille 5y agoWikipedia articles about partisan US politics are often incorrect.
- hobs 5y agoI'm going to go ahead and say that 22 years later we've probably seen the edit wars die down.
- slowmovintarget 5y agoActually, it shows I'm correct, at least for the court decision. In all of the counts requested by the Gore team (those effected by the Supreme Court decision), all of them came out in favor of Bush. Had there been statewide recounts, according to that page, things may have been different.
- weaksauce 5y agoThe state in which they recounted was the state where his brother was the governor.
- freedomben 5y agoI'm not trying to argue that it's a "he said, she said" thing, and as a matter of degrees, Trump is way worse. My main argument though is that humans (no matter which "side") are terrible at holding themselves to the same standard as they do other people, especially their opponents. For that reason I expect the rules to soften the next time the pendulum swings to the right.
- hobs 5y agoThat's very fair, and I am just noting that people like to "both sides" problems when as far as I can tell the democrats are fucked up and the republicans are actively acting as traitors to the nation. I am not happy with either, but I don't really compare them in the same sentence.