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Subject: The Irony of Al Gore
I have long held a minority opinion that Al Gore himself struck a nail in the coffin of American Democracy, with his challenge to the outcome of the Presidential Election election in Florida in 2000.. Simply put for 200 years everybody knew that American elections were not perfect, everybody excepted that as being part of the Rules of the Road (Nixon not contesting the vote in Chicago 1960). Now comes Al Gore with a very close election which by the Rules as flawed as they maybe, he lost (even after the first recount). Instead of gracfull accepting his defeat, he then challeged the Rules of the Road after the fact. This was the first time in American History that someone had challeged the very process of Voting itself. What is paticularily damaging about that, is now the PROCESS of voting itself is called into question. Kerry veery wisely decided not to pursue that course of action with the Ohio vote in 2004. You might say American Democracy can weather this kind of challege to the process of voting once, but three times and American Democracy is out.