Al Gore remembers Election 2000

The election took over a month to resolve, highlighted by two premature declarations of a "winner" on election night and an extremely close result in the state of Florida. Florida's 25 electoral votes ultimately decided the election by a razor thin margin of actual votes, and was certified only after numerous court challenges and recounts.Al Gore publicly conceded the election after the Supreme Court, in the case Bush v. Gore, voted 7-2 to end the recount on the grounds that differing standards in different counties constituted an equal protection violation, and 5-4 that no new recount with uniform standards could be conducted. Gore strongly disagreed with the court's decision, but conceded the election "for the sake of our unity of the people and the strength of our democracy". He had previously made a concession phone call to Bush the night of the election, then retracted it after learning just how close the election was. Following the election, a subsequent recount conducted by various U.S. news media organizations indicated that Bush would have won using some of the recount methods (including the one favored by Gore at the time of the Supreme Court decision) three Supreme Court justices defended their 2000 decision to overturn a ruling of the Florida Supreme Court to halt the recount of Floridas disputed election results, thus allowing George W. Bush to claim the states 25 electoral votes and victory in the presidential race, The Associated Press reports.A no-brainer! A state court deciding a federal constitutional issue about the presidential election? Of course you take the case, Justice Anthony Kennedy said in an interview published in the just-published book Supreme Conflict, by ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg.
Retired Justice Sandra Day OConnor told Greenburg that the Florida court was off on a trip of its own, by which she meant that the recount violated the Constitutions Equal Protection Clause because the counties involved in the recount were not following the same set of standards to determine whether to count a vote.

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[myangels7]

ah A nice stroll on memory lane. I need a rest from obama's anti-American policies.

5/5***** Brilliant!

[usgop]

The loser has finally become a winner..at ripping people off with the global warming

BS!

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane to

the days when we had a President who didn't trash the USA!

[RobertMOdell]

Gore surprisingly blew it back in 2000. He should have agreed to a state-wide recount (which would have given him the win), but instead he (illegally) tried to force recounts only in the counties where he had the lead thinking it would expand his numbers. He was wrong about that. He took the side of illegality, the FL supremes went along with his illegality until the supremes stopped it. Had he been virtuous, he would have won it all.

[RobertMOdell]

@Tsnore Until what happened in Oct 08.

[Tsnore]

This was the biggest shameful act of modern US history.

[vccstudents]

@myangels7 Those anti AMERICAN policies have 753 DAYS TO GO!

[ChrisIIIcube]

@Claronium780 "War criminal" ? Where's the trial, if he broke laws? LOL! More like #1 on the Best Seller List for 3weeks straight and having a great Christmas while you whine like a wittle girl.

[Claronium780]

@ChrisIIIcube FUCK War Criminal George W. Bush - even after the Lewinsky scandal he STILL lost the popular vote and only won because he cheated...pathetic

[Claronium780]

No, Al Gore didn't lost because some people accidentally voted for Buchanan - he lost because of the Supreme Court, because mostly African America voters were cut from the voter rolls, and because the popular vote doesn't matter in America ! not to mention Ralph Nader!

[DCussen]

Made a spectacle of himself trying to get a recount of an election he lost.

[maxman655]

@ChrisIIIcube

ok, i'm sorry but my opinion differs so much from yours that i must end this conversation. thanks for your input...