i think you take an election that important, a margin that narrow and examine it as closely as florida was examined, any state would come up short should. there would be irregular layerties of missing ballot box he or some equivalent of hanging chads. we held an election, counted the votes, recounted the votes under the same interpretation of the law and in the same about the same methods that we ve been using since trigger was a colt and george bush won. everything after that was a coup attempt which we, all patriots, managed to thwart. it was fascinating to me when they said in the documentary, if it wasn t for the butterfly ballot that al gore would be president. well, that s what phil daley said and the butterfly ballot was a confused ballot.
people are going to watch us and be appalled, oh, my gosh, these corrupt bastard s you stole the election. no, we won the elections. in broward county, hanging and dimpled chads that left voter intent unclear n.duval, confusing instructions to voters, and in palm beach the now notorious butterfly ballot. how would you describe what happened to al gore in florida? he got screwed by a bad ballot in palm beach that the democratic leadership in that county signed off on. the butterfly ballot had punch holes for al gore and ultra conservative pat buchanan located dangerously close to each other, just asking for mistakes. i can tell you that the people came out of the voting booth in the hundreds knowing,
realizing that they had punched pat buchanan s number thinking it was al gore. had the butterfly ballot not happened al gore would have been president of the united states, no doubt in my mind, period. a big glitch that after election day left gore scrambling to fix the unfixable. they had a real argument to make about that ballot but only before the election. they didn t have it afterwards. the democrats signed on it. the republicans signed off on it and it was designed by a democratic elections director in palm beach county. he had very few options to fundamentally change the outcome after that. so how and how hard to fight? questions that would dog and divide the democrats. when you re in a fight the first person who stops fighting always loses.
be appalled, oh, my gosh, these corrupt bastards, you stole the election. no, we won the elections. no you, you didn t, said the democrats, citing a long list of complaints. in broward county, hanging and dimpled chads that left voter intent unclear. in duval, confusing instructions to voters. and in palm beach, the now notorious butterfly ballot. how would you describe what happened to al gore in florida? he got screwed by a bad ballot in palm beach that the democratic leadership in that county signed off on. the butterfly ballot had punch holes for al gore and ultra conservative pat buchanan located dangerously close to each other, just asking for mistakes.
the 2000 butterfly ballot. they are still counting absentee ballots, and the latest word from the secretary of state s office up in tallahassee is that palm beach county s elections supervisor promises that by today they will have completed counting election day ballots. here s where we stand right now on the scoreboard for the state of florida. president obama winning 49.93% compared to governor romney s 49.21%. so the president leads by nearly 61,000 votes. and because palm beach county is a democratic stronghold, it seems almost a sure thing that president obama will win the state of florida. the romney campaign and the republicans aren t actually officially conceding, but here s what florida republicans sent to us in an e-mail statement. quote: given the democratic wave that swept the nation, we re glad we kept it in close in florida which enabled us to