The most incredible thing about the 2000 presidential election debacle was not that the wrong guy “won.” Any serious scholar of electoral politics will tell you this actually happens more frequently than most Americans have been led to believe. Neither is it all that incredible that, after securing his “win,” the wrong guy proceeded to govern as if he had been… return to article
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