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Originally Posted by Fr8monkey
Bush didn't steal the election. He just had the Supreme Court rule in his favor instead of going to the Senate to decide as per Constitutional law.
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Maybe you need to reread the Constitution. It's the House, not the Senate, who decides, and then only if none of the candidates recieves the required number of electoral votes.
And a quick history lesson: The Florida recounts went on forever, and the Democrats seemed to pick up a few votes with each recount. That said, Gore never came close to actually passing Bush, and there was the question of where those votes were coming from, especially since the counties in question were all Democrat-controlled.
The Florida Attorney General proclaimed that it was time for the counting to stop. Was she biased? Of course - she was a Republican and it was her guy who was leading. Was she wrong? Maybe. But according to Florida state law it was her call to make.
The Gore camp ran to the Florida State Supreme Court, which ruled that she must let the counting continue.
The Bush camp ran to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that Florida law was law and the State Court didn't have the authority to overturn it.
Did the US Supreme Court "appoint" Bush to be president? You can argue it either way, but you are showing your bias if you don't also acknowledge that the Florida Court was trying to "appoint" Gore.