Why Gore didn't immediately ask for a state-wide recount: because Florida law only had stipulations for county-by-county recounts. So his team's request for a recount in counties with the highest rates of errors made sense from a time perspective and a legal perspective.

Remedialreader on the Supreme Court: pleeeease. If they were serious about having a "uniform standard", they would have had to throw out the elections results for the entire state. This is because there were multiple, entirely different methods of voting - absentee ballots, punch cards, butterfly ballots, and op scans. Which is why the Florida Supreme Court went with the only uniform standard available, one conveniently ignored by SCOTUS: the best determination of the intent of the voter.

rtf100 & the "Gore lost because he couldn't carry his home state" canard: you have to love these invented-from-whole cloth standards that are whipped up on a moments notice that never apply to Republicans. It's no more a liberal's fault that he comes from an increasingly conservative state than it is a conservatives fault if he comes from an increasingly liberal state. Case in point: Bush didn't carry his home state of Connecticut, either.

Calif Mike:

Since mainstream media is mostly liberal, it means to me that just about everybody was against Clinton. Why was it the case? You don’t answer this question.

Why did you waste your time writing a 3,000 word essay if you're going to spout nonsense like this and destroy your credibility? Why did the media spend years fretting over Whitewater but not Iran-Contra? Why did the media spend a year obsessing over Clinton and Waco (which happened a month into Clinton's presidency), but not Bush and Ruby Ridge? Why did the media spend all of 2000 inventing Gore "fibs" and "exaggerations", yet gave Bush a pass for taking credit for legislation that he actually vetoed as governor of Texas.

And pushing a hard liberal position is not just good policy, it's also good politics. Just imagine where the Democratic party would be today if had overwhelmingly opposed the Iraq war.

1. The public option is massively popular - the Blue Dogs are simply not representing their constituents.

2. The Blue Dogs are most at risk if they block health care. Depressed Dem base + energized GOP base = they're at much higher risk of being thrown out of office. Remember Tom Daschle and Max Cleland - they voted for the Patriot Act and the invasion of Iraq and were still driven out of office.

3. The quieter you are, the more you grab your ankles, the less the Blue Dogs will care what you think.

4. Senators obstructing health care - Snowe, Conrad, Grassley - are down 20 points in the polls.

Stop overanalizing a perfectly positive statement - that most men are perfectly happy with normal sized women - and try to turn it into some kind of negative.

Well MMM, since you missed Biology 101, that would be because since the dawn of time, every baby ever born was gestated in the WOMB OF A MOTHER, and that mother had to carry the pregnancy, take on physical risks (even death) and then go through childbirth, including many hours of labor OR a c-section, which is full-court abdominal surgery, blah blah blah

Since you missed Time Keeping 101, maternity leave takes place after all that happens. So once again, when it comes to children, mother's have rights & choices while fathers only have responsibilities.

How many plus-sized men are in the fashion business? How many women found Chris Farley more attractive than Patrick Swayze when they did that Chip & Dale's sketch on SNL back in the day?

Nothing so ironic as one complaining about preconceptions and stereotypes while dishing them out in the same breath.

Too bad the hyperventilating over nontroversies left you out of breath for when something really outrageous really happens.

Any study of real-world actions that expressly ignore empirical data in favor of pop psychology is a joke.

Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, Hazlitt and today with Lew Rockwell and the other superb economists at the Mises Institute are the folks who predicted this mess we're presently in.

...for all the wrong reasons. As opposed to Krugman, who had the right predictions for the right reasons. You might as well follow Nostradamus as an Austrian economist.