Krugman is right -- one of the most troubling aspects of Florida Election Theft 2000 is that no one was punished for it (nor was anyone punished for last year's mischief in Ohio and elsewhere), meaning that certain people might be compelled to try it again in '06 and '08:
"Our current political leaders would suffer greatly if either house of Congress changed hands in 2006, or if the presidency changed hands in 2008. The lids would come off all the simmering scandals, from the selling of the Iraq war to profiteering by politically connected companies. The Republicans will be strongly tempted to make sure that they win those elections by any means necessary. And everything we've seen suggests that they will give in to that temptation."
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Nice try, Harold, but Krugman is wrong: The two major studies of the recounts sought by Gore's camp following the 2000 election showed the Bush would still have won Florida.
Follow the link and find the evidence.
Thanks for the comment, RFTR. Don't forget, though, that Cruella DeVil's felon purge and other suppression techniques deployed by BushCo were more than enough to tip the scales in favor of W, regardless of what any recount analysis concluded. What's the old computer programming phrase -- garbage in, garbage out?
You really got to hand it to Bush's Florida team. They not only got away with it, but they have thrived as a result, except that Harris's involvement may come back to haunt her. Of course, it didn't hurt them that the Democrats were weak when it came to that whole Florida fiasco and remain weak to this day.
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