Well it appears that the Democrats have taken the House and the Senate.
A little interesting reading from ABC News: Crucial Virginia Canvass Begins with the cutesy subtitle “Virginia Is for … Lawyers”
Having been in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, Tracey received the news that Virginia is having a recount with the deadpan response: “So what you’re telling me is that we’re moving to Virginia next…” (No, but it’s funny.)
Here are some choice quotes:
“I do expect it will be a bit more orderly than Florida,” said Dan Takaji, an Ohio State University law professor and an expert on election law. “The difference in Florida is that you had a large state with punch card ballots and a number of big, urban jurisdictions. Those combined to make the process a mess. … We won’t have the problem of ambiguously marked ballots.” Tuesday was the first time all Virginians who cast ballots in person used electronic voting machines in a general election. Virginia uses DRE machines, optical scan and ballot-marking devices made by Diebold, Sequoia, UniLect, Advanced Voting Solutions, Hart InterCivic and ES & S.
Ah yes, the good ol’ voting machines, which saved us from the hanging chads, the pregnant chads, and (worst of all) the overly-tanned spends- all- his- time- at- the- beach- playing- volleyball chad.
Because as we all know, there are no problems with the voting machines.
Note: if you missed the sarcasm in the last sentence, please re-read it until it becomes evident. Then ask yourself why you never hear stories about these machines “problems” favoring Democrats.
“The issue in Florida was whether or not a recount should go forward,” he said. “Here both sides recognize that the other side has a right to a recount if they want one.”
I’m still unclear on this, and excuse me for continuing to harp on it 6 years later, but why didn’t the Republicans feel this way 6 years ago? Why didn’t they feel that the Democrats had the right to a recount? Why did they fight it every step of the way? Why was the party-line that Al Gore needed to concede so that the nation could move on?
Will the Republicans tell George “Macaca” Allen that he needs to concede for the good of the country?
No, they will not.
What they fail to understand is that it’s the hypocrisy that bothers people. From W to Haggard to Foley — and all the others in between and around…