Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
No, Bush won because he got extra 500 votes in Florida. That's what got him elected, not the Supreme Court. SCOTUS merely stopped the recount.
No, Bush won because of Fox news announcing he won before the counts were even finished, so people were celebrating before the actual results. Then there was the whole butterfly ballot scandal, the overvotes/undervotes, and a bunch of various factors. The actual real result would have to involve completely redoing the vote from scratch. The difference was completely within the margin of error. Single misrecordings could have sent the vote in different directions.