http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/yes-bush-v-gore-did-steal-the-election.html
Yeah, Gore would have beaten Bush if the Supreme Court hadn't stopped the recount. I had always heard the muddled, confused version: "It depends on HOW you counted the votes." But it turns out Gore would have won even if we had used any of the seven standards,
How's THAT for a counter-factual. Would O'Connor have held on until 2005 to retire? Or would Gore have been able to nominate a non-ideologue to the Court? Would Gore have acted on the "flashing red lights" in August 2001? The evidence is that the Clinton team had a plan in place for bin Laden, but that the Bush team scrapped it, as they concentrated on China and Iraq as potential threats.
Imagine a world without the current Roberts Court. Without 9/11 (maybe). Without the Iraq war (certainly). With the national debt much, much lower than it it now.
Keep that in mind as we await the inevitable 5-4 decision that will decide whether hundreds of thousands of Americans will die prematurely for lack of health insurance in order to placate that fevered partisan ideology of Scalito and Co.
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