Word: buchananism
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...nation could have been spared a lot of whining and litigation, it seems, if only certain confused Palm Beach County supporters of Vice President Al Gore '69--supporters who voted for Pat Buchanan--had let fourth-graders vote in their stead. At issue is the infamous "butterfly ballot." It has been plastered across numerous web sites; check it out if you haven't yet, if only to see what folks in America are getting confused about these days...
Apparently this all struck some Gore supporters down in Florida as much harder than it sounds. They either accidentally voted once for Buchanan or, realizing their mistake, punched a second time and had their ballots disqualified. Thus were they, according to Gore campaign chair William Daley--drum roll please--"disenfranchised." Lawsuits on their behalf, challenging the validity of the election, are pending in the Florida courts...
...then, the crown jewel of the voting fiasco, the ineptly designed Palm Beach "butterfly" ballot, a ballot that caused thousands of primarily minority voters to wail that they may have given their precious vote to (gasp!) Pat Buchanan. Even Pat "The Nazi" Buchanan admits that these votes were not for him (probably out of some sort of desire to keep all of his votes "ethnically pure"), but we need not just take his word for it. Statisticians put the probability that fewer than 1743 (the margin between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Gore before this first recount...
Shhh! Don't tell Pat Buchanan, but the next U.S. president may have been chosen in Israel. "It's an amazing feeling, that we may be the ones to decide who is the next president of the United States," says David London. The 36-year old registered Republican from Broward County, Fla., has been living in the Jewish state for almost a decade, and his absentee ballot - along with some 100 others dispatched by South Floridian émigrés - may help determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential race...
...some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate absentee ballots without a postmark would be accepted until November 17 had even sent some scrambling for ways to get their ballot papers off to the Sunshine State before then. Pat Buchanan may be tearing his hair out. Then again, he got pretty good mileage out of Florida's Jewish retirees on Election...