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« on: December 09, 2017, 04:02:42 PM »

Both election results were very controversial


2016 because of the Russia investigation

2000 because of Bush v Gore
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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2017, 04:32:10 PM »

I would say 2016 is more controversial because...

1. Hillary won the popular vote by way more than Gore did

2. 2000 at least resulted in the election of, more or less, a conventional politician
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2017, 05:40:32 PM »

I would say 2016 is more controversial because...

1. Hillary won the popular vote by way more than Gore did

2. 2000 at least resulted in the election of, more or less, a conventional politician


THough you can argue more of the Left's hatred of Bush was due to how that election was resolved, while for Trump it was more about how bad a person he was and his campaign itself.
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2017, 06:08:30 PM »

I would say 2016 is more controversial because...

1. Hillary won the popular vote by way more than Gore did

2. 2000 at least resulted in the election of, more or less, a conventional politician
But at the same time, Trump won the electoral college much more easily than Bush did.
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2017, 08:58:53 PM »

2000 would've been a sleeper without the Florida incident if Bush had won the state a bit more convincingly and/or if Gore had won...unless New Hampshire, Wisconsin, New Mexico, or Oregon had been the lightning rod.

2016 was insanity as soon as Cruz jumped in.
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2017, 11:13:30 PM »

2016 wasn’t anywhere near as controversial as 2000. Election Night 2016 ran relatively smoothly...Election Night 2000 was a clusterf**k.
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2017, 01:24:22 AM »

I'd say so. Gore won the PV quite narrowly and I don't recall many people saying Bush would be dangerous to America.

At least most of Gore's voters warmed up to Bush once the campaign ended. Trump gained virtually no support beyond those who voted for him.
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2017, 03:19:12 AM »

2000 would've been a sleeper without the Florida incident if Bush had won the state a bit more convincingly and/or if Gore had won...unless New Hampshire, Wisconsin, New Mexico, or Oregon had been the lightning rod.

2016 was insanity as soon as Cruz jumped in.


I said the results not the campaign it self



So basically Bush v Gore legal case vs Russian Involvement
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2017, 11:35:03 AM »

If there were actual proof that the Russians were able to hack into the computer system of some specific jurisdiction and change actual numbers, then the 2016 would be more controversial.

Until that's been proven, 2000 will be the textbook case of a controversial election:
1.  The entire results hinged on one state.
2.  The governor of that state was the brother of one of the candidates.
3.  The margin of victory in that state was less than 0.01%.  (I doubt many of us would declare FULL confidence in any vote if the first count was 5424 to 5423, and then officials refused to double-check themselves.)
4.  At the time the state results were declared by the networks, voting was still in progress in 6% of the state.
5.  A 3rd-party candidate took a large number of votes--181 times the margin of victory--and there's no doubt that he took votes disproportionately from the losing candidate.  (I heard a theory once that 60% of Nader voters would have voted for Gore otherwise, 10% for Bush, and 30% wouldn't have bothered to vote at all.)
6.  A poor ballot layout in one county produced some unlikely results, implying that the votes that were recorded were probably not for the intended candidate.  (In particular, a precinct consisting heavily of elderly Jews produced a surprisingly strong showing for Pat Buchanan, or as the result was dubbed, "Holocaust survivors for Holocaust deniers".)
7.  The final result was basically a coin toss, with the courts shutting down a more thorough count mainly because the process was running up against some hard deadlines.  When a Supreme Court decision says that the decision itself should not be cited for precedent, you know that it's not actually great law.

The only reason--at the moment--for considering the 2016 more controversial is that it was more of a middle finger to the democratic concept of "majority rules" than 2000 was.  But unlike Bush's hair's-breadth win in 2000, Trump's victory in 2016 is the clear result of election rules that have been in place longer than any of us have been alive.
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« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2017, 12:54:22 PM »

If there were actual proof that the Russians were able to hack into the computer system of some specific jurisdiction and change actual numbers, then the 2016 would be more controversial.

Until that's been proven, 2000 will be the textbook case of a controversial election:
1.  The entire results hinged on one state.
2.  The governor of that state was the brother of one of the candidates.
3.  The margin of victory in that state was less than 0.01%.  (I doubt many of us would declare FULL confidence in any vote if the first count was 5424 to 5423, and then officials refused to double-check themselves.)
4.  At the time the state results were declared by the networks, voting was still in progress in 6% of the state.
5.  A 3rd-party candidate took a large number of votes--181 times the margin of victory--and there's no doubt that he took votes disproportionately from the losing candidate.  (I heard a theory once that 60% of Nader voters would have voted for Gore otherwise, 10% for Bush, and 30% wouldn't have bothered to vote at all.)
6.  A poor ballot layout in one county produced some unlikely results, implying that the votes that were recorded were probably not for the intended candidate.  (In particular, a precinct consisting heavily of elderly Jews produced a surprisingly strong showing for Pat Buchanan, or as the result was dubbed, "Holocaust survivors for Holocaust deniers".)
7.  The final result was basically a coin toss, with the courts shutting down a more thorough count mainly because the process was running up against some hard deadlines.  When a Supreme Court decision says that the decision itself should not be cited for precedent, you know that it's not actually great law.

The only reason--at the moment--for considering the 2016 more controversial is that it was more of a middle finger to the democratic concept of "majority rules" than 2000 was.  But unlike Bush's hair's-breadth win in 2000, Trump's victory in 2016 is the clear result of election rules that have been in place longer than any of us have been alive.


This. Until anything serious is proven with regards to Russia, 2016 was more of a shock than a controversy.
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« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2017, 03:10:06 PM »

I mean, it's all relative, so it's hard to say.  I was pretty young, but I remember 2000 seeming uprecedentedly nasty, especially compared to the three or four elections that came before it.  I think people were really taken aback by how bitter and divisive it was, and it definitely set the stage for this very unfortunate "Red America" vs. "Blue America" dynamic we have where a conservative Republican living in an urban area who shops at the co-op for some reason feels "politically out of place" because he or she doesn't resemble other Republicans in other areas of the country in some cultural ways, for example.  So, 2016 might have been nastier because things have only gotten worse with polarization, but I don't think it was more "controversial."
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« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2017, 03:20:09 PM »

I'd say so. Gore won the PV quite narrowly and I don't recall many people saying Bush would be dangerous to America.

At least most of Gore's voters warmed up to Bush once the campaign ended. Trump gained virtually no support beyond those who voted for him.

Bush's approval ratings were mediocre until 9/11 hit. He didn't really gain national support beyond his base either until 9/11.
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« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2017, 09:48:37 PM »

I'd say so. Gore won the PV quite narrowly and I don't recall many people saying Bush would be dangerous to America.

At least most of Gore's voters warmed up to Bush once the campaign ended. Trump gained virtually no support beyond those who voted for him.

Bush's approval ratings were mediocre until 9/11 hit. He didn't really gain national support beyond his base either until 9/11.

Still way above Trump's.
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« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2017, 05:43:24 PM »

I mean, it's all relative, so it's hard to say.  I was pretty young, but I remember 2000 seeming uprecedentedly nasty, especially compared to the three or four elections that came before it.  I think people were really taken aback by how bitter and divisive it was, and it definitely set the stage for this very unfortunate "Red America" vs. "Blue America" dynamic we have where a conservative Republican living in an urban area who shops at the co-op for some reason feels "politically out of place" because he or she doesn't resemble other Republicans in other areas of the country in some cultural ways, for example.  So, 2016 might have been nastier because things have only gotten worse with polarization, but I don't think it was more "controversial."
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Remember that 2000 election well.  Clearly, that election was more partisan than previous elections but nothing to the level that the 2004-2016 elections have become.  There was still a fair amount of crossover voting (for instance, Zell Miller won the U.S. Senate race in Georgia by a large margin whereas GWB took the state easily). 

I agree the result of the 2000 election created such a bitterness that over the near term at least, it's hard to see a level of bipartisanship to bring this country together. 
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« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2017, 09:08:21 PM »

I would say 2016 is more controversial because...

1. Hillary won the popular vote by way more than Gore did

2. 2000 at least resulted in the election of, more or less, a conventional politician
Agreed, no need to analyze it further...
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« Reply #15 on: December 26, 2017, 09:19:50 PM »

The Bush v. Gore decision was much worse than just "controversial." That decision by the SCOTUS convinced me that Republicans do not appoint better SC Justices than the Democrats. And that decision also convinced me that I did not want to vote any more. I did not vote in any elections from 2003 to 2015 inclusive because of Bush v. Gore.

But I can't say which election was more controversial. On the one hand 2000 was awful because of the SCOTUS sticking its nose where it did not belong; one the other hand 2016 was awful because of the guy who got elected.
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« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2018, 05:27:08 PM »
« Edited: January 26, 2018, 04:17:21 PM by mianfei »

Being familiar with the differences between the US electoral system and that of my native Australia, I have (instinctively) felt that the 2016 result is less unfair to the Democrats than 2000.

Although Trump lost the popular vote by more than Bush, I have always felt that Gore was with the entirely electorate more preferred than was Hilary.

If the US used the “preferential” or “instant runoff” system which is used in Australia and requires each candidate to gain an absolute majority via distribution of preferences, I imagine that Gore would have carried FL and NH from the preferences of Nader voters. In 2016, by contrast, the preferences of minor parties would most likely have allowed Trump to retain all the states he won, plus NH, MN and possibly ME (Hilary keeping a vote from ME-1) and CO.

Were a second runoff election required in states with no majority, Trump would have gained an even stronger chance in CO and ME at large.
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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2018, 08:18:18 PM »
« Edited: January 24, 2018, 08:21:17 PM by Burke859 »

I think Russia-gate will go down in history as a nothingburger.  Even if Trump were caught on video laughing with Putin about how Russia should go to bat for his campaign against Hillary, Russia isn't seen as an enemy of the state today, but more as just another country with a somewhat questionable way of doing things.  It wouldn't be much different from Hillary doing the same with Merkel or whoever.

Meanwhile, 2000 was a legitimate toss-up in terms of who everyone who cast ballots actually meant to vote for.  I have no doubt that there were at least 500 more actual ballots for Bush than Gore in Florida.  I do wonder whether there were more than 500 ballots where Jewish voters in South Florida voted for Buchanan when they meant to vote Gore due to the butterfly ballot.  

I don't buy into arguments that election results are skewed by "long lines and intimidation."  If you want to vote, follow the rules, figure out how to do it, and get there on time or get your absentee in on time, IMO.  But in terms of the actual number of voters who thought they voted for Bush or Gore in Florida in 2000, I'm not sure that the confusing and for some reason difficult to punch ballots will ever allow us to know who actually got more votes when it came to voter intent.  (Though I absolutely think that Bush's win was the correct legal and procedural outcome given that human error does not negate the rules and the process).
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« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2018, 08:44:13 PM »

Both election results were very controversial


2016 because of the Russia investigation

2000 because of Bush v Gore

Yes, but that hinges on the word "now". The public has a short memory and 2000 was 18 years ago; that result is baked in to people's minds, while the 2016 one isn't.
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« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2018, 09:26:28 PM »

I wasn't even born in 2000 (born in 2001), but considering that a large state like Florida managed to be extremely close, it pretty much cost Gore a victory unless you count New Hampshire, but that's another story. Not to mention that the official count is debated to this very day.

Sure, many of us were devastated by 2016's results, but people seemed to go back to normal quicker than I expected.
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