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In ne.general pete in chicago <joa1@xnet.com> wrote:

> dick chaney is very sick and that certainly impacts the
> presidential race...

No, it doesn't, not one whit.

All the votes have been cast.  If it was revealed tomorrow that George
Walker Bush eats kittens for breakfast every morning, and holds dark
satanic rituals in which he personally cut the hearts out of every person
executed in Texas to give them to Baal and Quezecatl, that would not,
could not, and should not have any effect on the race.  The race is *over*
-- it's simply determining what happened that matters now.

> insofar as bush doesn't have a viable VP

Dick Cheney is in fact a viable VP.  In any case, the assumption in some
conspiracy-theory quarters is that Cheney has always intended to step
aside for someone else as VP.

> - i guess we can all be thankful that gore got the
> plurality...and as you will soon see - the presidency

Gore's plurality means nothing.  The population of the United States does
not vote for the President.  The *states* of the United States vote for
the President.  If Gore wins Florida, then he wins the election (barring a
number of possibilities, like the Florida legislature changing election
law in an emergency session, which they could yet do, or the Congress
refusing to accept state certification from certain states, which they
also could do -- a power given to them by an 1878 law, I believe it was.)

Personally, I'm hoping this drags out longer -- at this point, I no longer
care who the President-elect is; I'm just having fun, and want to see
people on both sides invoke the most byzantine and obscure laws and
precidents avalable.

	- Ian
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