Reply #8: I believe that the outcome would have changed.

[Senior citizen]

The theft of an election isn't something to agree to "graciously." Sometimes it is important to fight even if you know you're going to lose.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool coward, and will do anything possible to avoid a fight, but when it comes to fascism, people are going to die anyway, so even a coward like myself is willing to fight. Given a choice between dying "graciously" and going down fighting, there isn't really a choice.

Even if Gore didn't realize the full extent of the fraud, the facts of the Florida disenfranchisement were presented to him by the CBC, and that alone was worth a fight.

Had a senator signed, the election would have been thrown to Congress, but there would have been more public outrage and pressure on congresscritters to do the right thing. Until Gore signed off on it, the pukes owned SCOTUS, but they didn't yet own the other two branches of government.

"A lost cause is the only one worth fighting for," remember?

The Democratic leadership showed their true colors right then. They are more concerned about big corporate campaign contributions than about voting rights or democracy. Gore supposedly "lost" by little more than 500 votes, and the DLC didn't care that thousands of Black voters were disenfranchised? Bipartisan unity is more important than fair elections and voting rights? Who are they kidding?

The problem isn't that * got in, the problem is that only the Congressional Black Caucus stood up to fight for democracy. What Gore and the Democratic senators did gave * at least as much legitimacy as if he had been installed by a Congressional vote instead of a SCOTUS (mis)ruling.