Orlando Sentinel's version of John Stossel is bringing up the Bush v. Gore issue again.

[The Backlash Cometh]

Bush v. Gore: Who really won Florida?

But the biggest blowback was from liberals who insist George Bush stole the election. They took exception to my statment that media reviews indicate Bush would have won any recount.

This was from a USA Today story in May 2001

George W. Bush would have won a hand count of Florida’s disputed ballots if the standard advocated by Al Gore had been used, the first full study of the ballots reveals. Bush would have won by 1,665 votes — more than triple his official 537-vote margin — if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as votes, a USA TODAY/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study shows. The study is the first comprehensive review of the 61,195 “undervote” ballots that were at the center of Florida’s disputed presidential election.

And then came a NY Times analysis, which I wrote about , along with some other media projections.

Fun and games. Bottom line is that the butterfly ballott threw the election. But you can’t quantify how many people who voted for Pat Buchannan would have voted for Gore, making it a moot point. You can only could the ballots as cast.

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