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Friday, August 19, 2005

Krugman

Paul Krugman revisits the stolen 2000 presidential election:

In his recent book "Steal This Vote" - a very judicious work, despite its title - Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, provides the best overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida vote. And he documents the simple truth: "Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election."
Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida's ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr. Gore. This was true despite a host of efforts by state and local officials to suppress likely Gore votes, most notably Ms. Harris's "felon purge," which disenfranchised large numbers of valid voters.
But few Americans have heard these facts. Perhaps journalists have felt that it would be divisive to cast doubt on the Bush administration's legitimacy.


And perhaps that explains this (paraphrasing MWO) lying, blaring, still-uncorrected banner headline and story that appeared atop Page One of his own newspaper on Nov. 12, 2001.

Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote
George W. Bush would have won even if the Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount that the Florida court had ordered to go forward.


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