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Jim Hoft Doesn't Understand Parody, Says Al Gore Is "Pushing Sharia Law"

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Dark_Falcon2/18/2013 3:39:01 am PST

re: #286 sagehen

There’s the Senate, the constitution provides specifically for a procedure. (at the time it was an even split, and VP-still-standing-Gore would have been the tiebreaking vote, and… it would have been ugly, and R’s would have complained vehemently forever about doing it that way, but… IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL).

He chose not to do that because the result would have been a country even more bitterly divided than it actually is anyway — that playing every possible legal maneuver and working the rules and getting the big chair was less important to him than what that would have done to the country’s mood/tone.

The Senate does not elect the president in case the electoral college cannot do so, the House of Representatives does that. The Senate elects the vice president. So if Florida’s electoral votes had not counted in 2000, Gore would still likely have lost. For him, Bush vs. Gore was the end of the line.