538: What the rise of Kamala Harris tells us about the Democratic Party

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50. Sorry but have to correct one point of fact

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You stated Gore would have been President if his campaign had asked for a statewide recount. That is a media myth. There was no provision in Florida election law for a candidate to ask for a statewide recount. Requests had to be made on a county by county basis. With the Bush campaign going to court to fight every request, the Gore campaign didn’t have the time or resources to ask for a recount in all 67 Florida counties. Gore did offertory Bush a proposal for the two campaigns to request recounts in all counties but Bush refused. Finally, the last order of the Florida Supreme Court was to recount all the under votes in the entire state. This was the recount the U.S. Supreme Court stopped, handing the election to Bush.