>>I don't think we will ever know for sure who won in 2000. All the investigators seemed to agree that the margin of error was greater than the margin of victory.
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>>Ultimately the vote was 5-4 in favor of Bush.
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>Which makes him no better than any banana-republic generalissimus: "if you can't win the ballots, make sure you win the counting". One would think he'd be more cautious with such a history of coming to power, but no. He behaves as if he had 90% of people behind him.

Exactly. He took both of his narrow victories as mandates.