Should Gore have fought for Florida, a la Ukraine?

[Ben.]

I thought at the time and still think that they should have rerun the election across the state, failing that I agree with dazzelman, the Gore and Bush campaigns should have agreed to a state-wide recount of all votes in all counties… unfortunately the Gore team for some bizarre reason would only allow recounts in selective states while Bush’s team would do anything to prevent the impression that Bush was not “the winner” and Gore “the sore loser”… indeed had Florida not been called on the night, the whole dynamic would have been different, the story would have been “too close to call” with Gore as the popular vote winner, rather than “Bush may not have won”… if you see what I mean, that really where Gore’s hopes began to fade