Bounced back to Florida.

[Feisters]

I think it's pretty evident that the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't want anything to do with this. Oh well, I'm going to get on with life.

 

[Lord Evermore]

You're implying that the final result would actually have any real affect on your life if Florida wasn't in contention?

 

[Tripleshot]

Nerve racking.I wish the talking heads would get there heads together.

 

[Tripleshot]

Cnn is implying a recount is possible. (I think,They think)

 

[PG]

The title of this thread should really be "Smackdown #2"

 

[Feisters]

My life has nothing to do with the outcome of this "election". I can wait four more years.

 

[MrChicken]

Now that they have had a few more minutes to read it, they are saying that basically Gore is done, it's over.

 

[Feisters]

"Smackdown #2" LOL! The U.S. Supreme Court has done nothing more than to choose to NOT deal with it. Which really, as it should be.

 

[ToBeMe]

• The U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday remanded the Florida recount case back to that state's Supreme Court, which means no recounting of ballots can resume any time soon.
  
  Seven justices said they saw constitutional problems with the Florida Supreme Court's recount order.
  
  The justices had heard oral arguments from both sides Monday. Democrat Al Gore sought the resumption of a hand recount authorized by the Florida Supreme Court last Friday but suspended the next day by the U.S. Supreme Court. Republican George W. Bush wants no recount.
  
  At issue are more than 40,000 "undervotes" -- those where machines could not detect a vote for president. Although Bush is the certified winner in Florida, his 537-vote lead had eroded to less than 200 votes before the hand recount was halted on Saturday.
  

<< The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the Florida Supreme Court's ruling ordering a statewide recount of undervotes in the presidential election and sent it back to the lower court, asking the Florida court to craft a statewide standard to count the votes or use the machine count totals. The George W. Bush campaign had asked the court to throw out manually recounted votes. Al Gore's campaign wants the recount to go ahead >>

 

[apoppin]

Well, it really looks like the Supreme Court is itself deeply divided.

But it looks like the fat lady is clearing her throat . . .

 

[Mill]

Even if the court said Gore should be shot, CNN would say something positive in Gore's favor. They have to be the most biased liberal network on TV.

From abcnews.com:

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court dealt an apparent death blow to Al Gore?s presidential hopes by ruling in favor of George W. Bush. The court reversed an order from the Florida Supreme Court.

 

[Tripleshot]

I believe it is over.

hello President Bush.




(watch your backside)

 

[Total Refected Power]

Yup its over.

Really weird. A recount would have been allowed according to the Supreme Court but had to be completed properly by Dec.12. Doh!!!!!!!!

This will really piss people off. Talking out of both sides of their mouth.

I was for Bush but the Supreme Court ruling is ridiculous.

 

[JellyBaby]

The 2000 election might be over but key issues remain, namely how to better interface voters with vote-taking equipment, vague laws, and that pesky manual recounting standard. FL has a couple of years before the next series of elections...lets see what they can do in that time. We'll be watching our own states, too.

 

[ToBeMe]

Upon reading over the ruling it appears that the USSC has laid down such stringent restrictions has to leave the possibility of a future recount but it will have to be argued, and strict standars set forth before any count begins. Further, it reads in the interim the Certification is upheld.........Bush wins?

 

[Valhalla1]

okay, I'm at work, away from a TV. cnn.com has sketchy details, someone help me here. cnn.com seems to indicate that the US supreme court just basically said there are constitutional probs with what you did, heres the case again, come up with some state-wide standards for recounts, and go ahead and recount?

yet it seems in this thread that the ruling from the court was basically exactly what bush was looking for.

don't get me wrong, I think gore is a bloodsucking liberal mental case, and I'm behind bush 100%..

 

[etech]

This is what I understand so far.

The USSC said that the different and unfair ways of counting dimpled,pregent or hanging chads was untenable and that the Florida SC should of rectified that problem earlier.

The Florida SC has already established that Dec. 12th was the deadline for picking the electors. The electors picked by that day must stand.

Gov. Bush will be President Elect Bush.



Tripleshot stay away from my backside.

 

[Total Refected Power]

Valhalla:

Recount would be possible but had to be done by DEC 12!!!!!! That is today!!!!!!! DOH!!!!!!!!

 

[Valhalla1]

I see..

what a cop-out ruling by the USSC. I was hoping they would just wipe the floor with the activist liberal bastard florida SC.

TripleShot - you do know that threatening the president is a severe crime, don't you? :Q

 

[Tiger]

It is finally over.

It seems that 7 of the 9 found equal protection flaws in the FSC decision and, 5 of those 7, the majority opinion, reversed citing equal protection and other flaws, especially 3 U.S.C. 5.
Only 2 justices found nothing wrong with how the FSC ruled.
Now we'll see what the Vice President is made of. It seems that the DNC has asked the VP not to concede until the 18th so that they have some time to &quot;approach&quot; some electoral college electors about jumping ship.

 

[JellyBaby]

Just heard that the head of the democratic national committee is calling for Gore to concede! Ouch.

 

[Valhalla1]

if gore accepts the presidency because the democratic national committee bribes some republican electors...

surely even Gore isn't that fuc#ing dirty. talk about watching your back while in office...

 

[Valhalla1]

okay, we got conflicting opinions here, 1 says DNC tells Gore not to concede yet, 1 says the DNC tells gore to concede?

 

[Pennstate]

What a bunch of WIMPS If you can't take the heat, don't jump into the pot in the first place.

 

[DesignDawg]

JELLYBABY. LINK IT.

Ricky
DesignDawg