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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts) Sat Nov 10, 2018, 07:44 PM Nov 2018

Florida Recount Finally Wraps Up, Al Gore Declared President

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FLORIDA—As Florida finally wrapped up its contentious recount of the votes tallied in the recent midterm elections, a winner was finally declared: Al Gore is now the president of the United States.

The recount process at long last found the "missing votes" that would have handed Gore the presidency back in 2000, making him the official president of the country.

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Florida Recount Finally Wraps Up, Al Gore Declared President (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2018 OP

Good one! PJMcK Nov 2018 #1

Slightly off topic. I had no idea that Katherine Harris's husband had committed suicide a few years dameatball Nov 2018 #2

Not just a footnote Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2018 #3

This is very true. joshcryer Nov 2018 #7

Brenda has been in politics for a long time Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2018 #8

I would not be opposed to another person primarying her. joshcryer Nov 2018 #9

Arghh...she's here?? Yuck! LeftInTX Nov 2018 #4

You're not slightly off topic Niagara Nov 2018 #5

ha. ha. ha. RussBLib Nov 2018 #6

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)

1. Good one!

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 07:47 PM

Nov 2018

It's always Florida. Why not?

dameatball

(7,398 posts)

2. Slightly off topic. I had no idea that Katherine Harris's husband had committed suicide a few years

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:19 PM

Nov 2018

ago until I read it yesterday. I'm not suggesting a thing about the suicide. No conspiracy theory. Just odd how her place in history has sort of faded away. She was probably the most temporarily influential and forgettable figure in determining the Bush presidencies, which ultimately led to the quagmire we have been in ever since in the Middle East. Article stated she was now married to a wealthy Republican donor in Texas. Just a footnote to history.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)

3. Not just a footnote

Reply to dameatball (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:49 PM

Nov 2018

She had one huge impact: until Harris, no one in mainstream America realized the true power a Secretary of State at the state level has.

joshcryer

(62,270 posts)

7. This is very true.

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 11, 2018, 12:03 AM

Nov 2018

She was the case study on how SoS's can literally rig elections and get away with it.

In Florida it doesn't help that the Dems kept electing an utterly incompetent elections supervisor in Brenda Snipes (despite years of incompetence she keeps getting elected, and the Republicans are all too happy by that).