imagine how different the election would have turned out if bush spent the final two weeks of the 2000 campaign in florida, new mexico, oregon, iowa and wisconsin...instead of california, illinois and new jersey.
the dwi story was a minor detail. bush lost the popular vote, and if not for some legalities, the electoral votes, simply because he was arrogant and complacent.
agree? disagree?
I agree.
Likely, Bush would have won Florida, by an insurmountable margin, and would likely have taken New Mexico and Iowa comfortably, giving him an uncontested win. He would have won the popular vote as well, had not some sensationalist interloper and Democrat dirty trickster, engaged in a campaign of subversion, and broke the DWI story the Thursday before the Tuesday vote.
Bush was as well hurt on election night itself when the biased networks, with the exception of Fox, were jumping over each other to declare Gore the winner in Florida, even before all Florida precincts were closed. The panhandle was still voting, and heavily for Bush. No doubt this early and innacurate news put a damper on Republican voters in this part of the state, and cost Bush thousands of votes.
