Predominately white counties suddenly voting against an African American candidate after all polls suggested a comfortable victory means nothing?
Except the polls suggested a small victory...and they oddly seemed to not account for any sort of state-wide ballot measure that might have brought traditional non-voters to the polls.
Like say, a gun control one. And it might not have helped for the black candidate to be very very pro-gun control. (Which he later moderated, and won!)
Roughly 50,000 votes were discounted due to people being listed as convicted felons. However, most of those people were in fact not convicted felons. Most of these purged ballots were from black voters, who voted 88% for Gore. I think that is enough to beat a 537 vote spread, and enough to warrant a recount.
I didn't say anything about not warranting any recount. But the Gore legal camp wanted
illegal recounts in specific counties. (You had to count all counties, not just high Democrat ones.) And who knows how many ballots were double punched by Democrat election workers? And all those military absentee ballots thrown out? And who knows if Gore really won? Or if Bush did? "537" was not a real vote count, it was the decided vote count.
(And your example is more likely failure of government. Not malicious Republican effort.) (It's amazing how much government can fail, yet people still want to give it more power.)
So why did they lose in 2004?
John F. Kerry. The worst candidate in modern American politics.
And because 2004 came before the last four years?
People still had their retirement funds, gas was half the price it is now (yes, it has been going down recently, which has been quite nice, but you know that it is going to shoot back up again soon, and a year ago it was around this price anyway), our dollar owned the Canadien dollar
All of which was true in 2004? And 2005? And most of 2006? And most of it also true in 2007?
but back then we didn't mind.
Well, yeah. That's the point. We don't want to go back now. In five years we'll want to go back to 2008. That's what a $100 trillion entitlement collapse will do to you.
I am pro-choice
And that's reason enough to vote for Obama? When a McCain victory sadly won't change anything? Is it worth it to lose more of your freedom in order to keep the legal choice to terminate pregnancies? (Well, you can't decide this. Only women can, but whatever.)
(And gay marriage won't change either, McCain hates the religious right when he doesn't need them to win elections. Neither candidate supports the proper thing and eliminating marriage as a state institution.)
And please tell about this goon squad thug state.
Look up the "Obama Truth Squad", the Obama campaign petitions to the FCC and DOJ on political opponents, Chicago Politics, and the Fairness Doctrine. And add in that shortly the government will probably control your health decisions and your bank. And that a majority of the country will not be paying more in taxes than they receive in government benefits.
