There are those Debate "Monday morning quarterbacks" saying, Obama sat on his lead, he was just defensive, McCain took the offensive position - - I say: Obama asked and answered every question he needed to and more so - - needed to in the sense of what both decided and undecided voters need to hear. Just as important, in this visual media age - he came across as cool, yet concerned, intelligent but not "elitist" - -
McCranky on the other hand! The sound bite played over and over from him: I'm not George Bush - if you wanted to run against George Bush, you should have run four years ago! Sounds smart - but really isn't. No Democrat wanted to run against George Bush four years ago because Democrats know and remember that George Bush and the Supreme Court stole the election from Al Gore eight years ago.
The polls are on Obama-Biden's side. They may tighten here and there, swing states may go from toss up to lean one way or the other, but after last night's great performance from "our guy" I'm starting to allow myself to be confident!
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Stolen election you say? Only you and Michael Moore feel that way.
Remember the guy holding the pregnant "chad" up to the light to look and "guess" at who the voter-might-have-voted for?
Well, the US Supreme Court, vote was 7-2 that THAT arbitrary & different standard was unconstitutional. 7-2.
Oh, and the 2 that dissented…..they only wanted to send the case back to Florida to let them come up with one standard that would apply to all counties. [So, you can infer that 9 justices, that is all of them, including Clinton's appointees---9 Justices that said what Florida was doing was illegal]!
Remember…….
1. Al Gore brought the case to the Florida courts for a decision.
2. When appealed before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court voted, in a 7-2 opinion, and held that the Florida Supreme Court's method for recounting the ballots was unconstitutional.
3. See: Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html
Noting that the Equal Protection clause guarantees individuals that their ballots cannot be devalued by "later arbitrary and disparate treatment," the Supreme Court decided by a 7-2 vote that the Florida Supreme Court's scheme for recounting ballots was unconstitutional. Even if the recount was fair in theory, it was unfair in practice. The record suggested that different standards were seemingly applied to the recount from ballot to ballot, precinct to precinct, and county to county.
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