re: #47 stevemcg

Actually the recount was never finished. I think a newspaper looked at the ballots, but that isn’t a recount. The exercise was pointless anyway because it didn’t matter what the newspaper came up with, the election was decided by the court.

i don’t remember the final counts, performed as you said by the media, being in dispute. as JamesFireCat said, one can be concerned about the possible precedent set without disputing that the right person ended up in the WH.

either way, courts or recount, Bush was in. i’d have a lot more sympathy if the media recounted the ballots and found that Gore would have won.