Every election we lose is not because of fraud!

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26. There is a problem with the "Had the recount continued to completion" thing.

If the recount had continued to completion as outlined by the Gore team, Gore would have lost. Only a statewide recount would have resulted in Gore winning and there was no court case anywhere where that would have been the recount.

I put that as a failure by the Gore team. There was no scenario given by the Gore team where they would have won, so there was no way for any other outcome than for Bush to be president.

Furthermore, had Gore even gone so far as to request and obtain a statewide recount, I doubt seriously if his electors would have been seated. The Republicans had the constitutionally required numbers to object to the Florida electors and thus neither candidate would have had a majority of electors. It would have then been thrown to the House where the GOP held the majority on a majority of state caucuses, thus Bush would have won by a vote of 27 to 23 in the House. Al Gore would have cast the deciding vote for Veep in the Senate, but I doubt he would have gone for Lieberman after having just lost in the House for the presidency. That would have been too contentious.

So yes, in the end it was the voter purge that determined the outcome. Oh, if a few hundred Nader voters had not been ideological purists it could have been different, but here we are.