[ScottSolomon]

Did you write the article on the World Socialist Web Site yourself?

Sorry, I posted a lot of stuff, I thought I put in the link to the article. It still does not change the point of the article itself or what I was saying.

What percentage did you actually write yourself?

I think I linked to most of the places I got any information from. I linked to the article, but I wrote a bunch of stuff before the passage - that I ended up deleting - then I bumped into a character limit for the post so I had to cut out passages. Along the way I deleted the passage that introduced that article. Again, sorry. Kill me.

Scott's starting to sound like the Radar of the left

Thanks Syc. You better leave me alone or I'll tell everybody stories about you as a kid. :p

It's hard to tell anything about someone who doesn't even use their own words.

Again, sorry. In the future I will be very clear about what I write and what other have written.

Scott makes it sound like Gore and his team just sat by and waited for democracy to happen

I am not trying to imply that. There is, however, a difference between playing politics and really working to fix an election. I have no doubt that Jesse Jackson's harping about black people being excluded from voter rolls was poltical grandstanding. I have no doubt that Gore's attempt to have a few districts manually counted was not a poltically motivated action. I am sure that many problems with the elections were more apt to be caused by negligance than by a conscious effort to disenfranchise people.

But there are some things that are wrong. Stripping the voter rolls of people with names that sound like felon's names is wrong. Recreating absentee ballots is wrong. The federal goverment overriding a state supreme court on a state issue is wrong.

In the whole, Bush had a home field advantage in Florida, and the vote was decided in Bush's favor becasue of this.

Bush's strategy on how to ensure that decision was in his favor was the better of the two

How do you figure? Is it better to allow the federal government to override a state's right to run it's own elections? Is it better to rely on the partisan divide of the Supreme Court? What precedant allows the Supreme Court to override the will of the people in a vote?