Reply #44: You are correct that we will never agree [View All]

I have heard speeches and answers to questions where Kerry has said that if there were a way to challange it he would have. Here answer here is consistent with those comments.

At the risk of misstating this because I read it a long time ago- Gore said in a Rolling Stone article when asked of his election that the alternative to conceding and leaving was a constitutional crisis. Kerry had it worse - Gore was down 537 votes and he could point to many places he lost votes cast for him, Clinton was in office and we were at peace. Kerry faced a country where the media spoke of a BIG Bush win (3 million votes) and 120,000 down in Ohio (this became 60,000 after the provisional ballots were counted as Kerry promised they would be.). The country was at war and the media had been against Kerry even as he ran. He also clearly did not have the backing of key Democrats - Bill Clinton 2 weeks later was babling about having liked both Bush and Kerry at the opening of his Presidential library. The Democratic party itself would have likely condemned Kerry, no court in Ohio (in Republican hands) would even have heard a Kerry case before December when teh legislature designated the electors.

WHat would that have done for the Democratic party in 2006?