<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DiamondDust:
NOSty, you must have been bored if you're bringing this up again. Anyways, I don't know the exact numbers, nor will I confess to knowing the exact numbers. Each side has their own excuses for what happened in Florida, and regardless what they might say, if voters, say in Texas, had "accidentally" voted for Ralph Nader and thrown the election in Gore's favor, the Republicans would have swarmed that state with every lawyer they could have found.
Bush is President because Gore was too ignorant to take his own home state. You couldn't pay me money to vote for Bush, yet you couldn't pay me money to vote for or support Gore. If Gore had taken his own home state, Florida would have been a dead issue.
Unfortunately for the rest of the country, the race in 2004 is going to probably have a lot of Florida in the advertising and such. The thing people fail to forget is that, even with the numbers Bush currently has, the Democrats will probably still take the big electoral vote states. As a result, I wouldn't be surprised if the electoral win is a pretty slim one.</font>