POTUS Election thread

[Pannonian]

Quite correct. Final recount showed a gap of well under 2k votes. Had only a few thousand persons who were TRUE left wingers voted Gore instead of Bush, then the 21st century would be a good bit different.

After chasing leads for over a decade, in 1984, the writer-politician Rupert Allason finally tracked down the legendary Agent Garbo, persuading Pujol to return to Europe in time for the 40th anniversary of the D Day landings, in which he played an integral part.

Always tip the waiter

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At 2am on 2 May 1997 the Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders was elected as MP for Torbay. This was after three recounts. Adrian had overcome the 5,787 majority of the sitting Conservative MP Rupert Allason and won by the narrow margin of 12 votes.

The story goes that Rupert had lost his seat because he failed to tip a local pub waitress a week before polling day. Fourteen Conservative-voting waiters then switched to the Liberal Democrats in protest... and Rupert lost by 12 votes.