Could it be Al Gore?

[Mr. Grim]

Has anyone considered that it may be Al Gore sending out the Antrhax? He may have deep seated anger about losing the election - started in Florida, now the Supreme Court, the media, Rush Limbaugh losing his hearing - it must all be connected and I think Al Gore is behind it.

[Enough Exams Already]

Well, Gore is immune from the effects of anthrax--after all, anthrax kills only living beings, and Gore is animatronic.

[Indep]

I wish Rush had his hearing and couldn't speak. Either would be annoying to him, but the rest of us would be a lot less likely to be annoyed the one way.

[Abducens]

>>So much for supporting the Right to Free Speech.

Funny, noone seemed to have a comeback for this, I wonder why.

Don't worry, I'm going through the same thing in the Sports forums.

[The Drunken Actuary]

The basic premiise is wrong: Al Gore didn't lose the election. He lost the electoral college vote because his daddy's friends are on the supreme court and his brother is the governor of the state in question. It's makes us look like a third world country. As far as Rush and the free speech thing: You can support free speech and still think Rush annoying.

[Oak Glaister]

1) The Electorial College is the election.

2) Indep said that he wished RL had lost his ability to speak. If Indep finds RL to be annoying, he should turn the radio off instead of wishing the man to be silenced.

[Anonymous2]

Hey, the academics and the press recounted all the ballots and chads under various rules, and Bush won Florida no matter how you count it. Gore was right to want one recount on a close tally like that. But his true colors showed when he sent Daily the son of Daily to represent his interests in all the vote count manuvering. Process be d*mned, Gore was going to do anything to get elected. You notice he only challenged votes in primarily democratic districts. Bush did not counter that by challenging the vote in primarily republican districts. We could have had a constitutional crisis if a real foot dragging fight broke out and the vote was unresolved leading to two delegations of electors from Florida going to the college.

[The Drunken Actuary]

The "Election" takes place on the first tuesday after the first monday in November. Al Gore won that. The electoral college process was set up to give less populous states a higher proportional say in the outcome of the presidential election then their populations otherwise would dictate. To that end, it worked perfectly although I doubt the framer of the constitution would have preducted such a result.

As far as all of the chad counting by both parties: obviously they would only ask for recounting in counties where they thought it would help themselves. And the reason that Bush did not ask for a recount in the republican counties of Florida: why should he have, when he had the lead? Anyway, the travesty of the entire election is not any of that, but that it was decided by the supreme court who should have refused to hear the case. And finally, Al Gore fought to the end (as did Bush), like anyone who had gone through a year long campaign would have, but he chose to graciously concede the race when it was finally over as opposed to trying to continue the fight in the press or the court. AND he has stayed out of Bush's was ever since instead of being a very visible critic (as winner of the popular vote) as a lesser man would have done. Let's give him credit where it's due.

[Oak Glaister]

I'll say it again:

The Electorial College is the election (Electorial votes are the votes). Bush won. You even say he had the lead.

The purpose of the Electorial College was to help ensure that the winning candidate's support does not come from just one or two parts of the country.

[Mr. Grim]

But this also means my vote means less than someone's vote in Wyoming. not sure if that is fair.

d*mn those consitution writers- what were they thinking. How do I sign up to become a Canadian?