>Doug,
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>>Ahh.. Interesting. Do you know the makeup of the Florida legislature? IOW, would they just automatically give the election to Mr. Bush or Gore?
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>It's a Republican majority, but I don't know by how much. I doubt we'll see that scenario play out, however. I expect that Gore will win the deadline extension, get the recounts in Dem counties for a few thousand extra votes, split the absentees, and then proclaim a "full, fair and accurate count" -- by early next week.


At which point in time the Bush campaign will ???????

Fold up shop and walk away?????

For what little it's worth:

I feel that, should your scenerio come to pass, we'll see the Republicans pulling out all the legal stops to do what they can to get a more favorable result (perhaps a lawsuit to invalidate the count and throw it all into a Republican dominated state legislature?)

Gore may be a very sleazy politician, but Bush is a politician as well and is supported by other politicians. Their objective is to WIN and they'll do whatever they legally can to do that.