Democracy will survive this willful Republican denialism (2000 flashback)

[FreepFryer]

Much is being made of the risk to democracy posed by only 1-in-5 Republicans feeling the 2020 election was valid, but this isn’t new - and white pro-Trump Republicans don’t get to decide everyone else’s reality anymore.

Which is why they trashed the Capitol.

(TL;DR: fuck Republican feelings )

Gallup polls conducted after the 2000 election show almost a third of Al Gore voters refused to accept Bush as the legitimate president just one month before his inauguration, and an overwhelming majority of Democrats refused to say Bush had won fairly.

Post-election Gallup polling shows 74 percent of Gore voters said it was”unfair” that Bush won the electoral college without winning the popular vote.

Almost 70 percent of African-Americans said they felt “cheated” by the election’s outcome, and 40 percent said they would not accept Bush as the legitimate president. Just seven percent of African-Americans said Bush won “fair and square.”

Among all Gore voters, 31 percent said Bush “stole” the election. That rate rose to 50 percent among African-American voters. 49 percent of Democrats said Bush “Won on a technicality.” Just 18 percent of Democrats said that Bush “won fair and square.”

Gallup polling conducted from December 15-17, 2000 — barely a month before Bush’s inauguration — showed that 30 percent of Gore’s voters still refused to accept Bush as president.

http://news.gallup.com/poll/2188/black-americans-feel-cheated-election-2000.aspx

[royable]

1. Yes, Shrub was designated president,

but I never considered him legitimate.

[Jeebo]

2. There was something that stinks to high heaven about that election.

The post-election media recount revealed a curious anomaly. Of the Bush-Gore overvote ballots in Florida, ALL of them were in punch-card counties. If you wanted to fix the ballots in Bush's favor, you would have to alter the ballots that are filled in with felt tip pens one at a time, but to fix the punch-card ballots, you could stack them up a couple dozen at a time and punch them through the Bush hole en masse. That's how you could ruin a lot of Gore votes while leaving the Bush votes unchanged. I suspect that was done late on election night 2000 in those south Florida counties that used punch-card ballots, and this could explain why those counties were counted so late on that night. They were waiting until almost all the votes were counted so they could see how many ballots needed to be altered.

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=1730

-- Ron

[FreepFryer]

3. No doubt. And yet, we didn't invade and rip Hastert's name off the door to the Speaker's Suite

...even though he really was a pedophile.

Smh