Worth checking out http://www.gorewonflorida.org to see the numbers from the
statewide recounts by the consoritum of news organizations recounting
ballots statewide. By the standard of where votes were "reasonably clear",
Gore won by 29,756 votes. And by the narrower standard of where the vote
we economists _love_ graphs.
At 02:56 PM 2/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
Worth checking out http://www.gorewonflorida.org to see the numbers from the
statewide recounts by the consoritum of news organizations recounting
ballots statewide. By the standard of where votes were "reasonably clear",
Gore
So how to reconcile with:
"Story Filed: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:12 PM EST
MIAMI (AP) -- A media-sponsored recount of 10,644 uncounted ballots in
Miami-Dade County found a gain of only 49 votes for Al Gore, suggesting
he would not
have picked up enough votes to win the presidential race.
from SLATE:
USA [TODAY] describes its Florida vote findings as "a blow to Democratic
claims that Gore would have won the election if a hand recount had
occurred." But: 1) the paper waits until the very end of its Page 3
follow-up to report that its study also discovered that in Miami-Dade,
