HOW did we lose Florida?

frightwig

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 12:14 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 00:14

With 99% of the precincts in Florida reporting, there have been 7,202,382 votes counted in the state so far. If Bush just recouped his 48.8% from the last election, he'd have 3,514,762 votes in Florida right now. He's exceeded that by 268,355.

Somehow:

In a state "lost" by the Democrats last time because of widespread and nationally infamous fraud, and we should have been motivated as hell to GOTV this time...

Where blacks seemed particularly motivated to make their voices heard in this election...

Where there were reports of voting lines snaking around blocks, and people waiting hours to cast early ballots, indicating record turnouts...

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