" The point is that Gore fired the first shot which indicates to me that Bush was on the defensive, Not on the offensive as the sore losers claim..."

This is ludicrous. Bush had his campaign director Kathryn Harris, back when she was the overseer of elections in Florida, scrub names of people who were still eligible to vote from the rolls. Most of them were black (big surprise!) They also routinely hire thuggish-looking people to "discourage" (intimidate) black people and prevent them from going into the polls. I am actually acting as a poll-watcher this election, to welcome minority voters who show up and are being accosted by these Republican-hired thugs.

Bush had been firing shots, as you put it, for months, and he STILL probably lost Florida.

As to your claim that "several news organizations went over and over the Florida ballots and all of then concluded that Bush got more votes than Gore."

Which ones?