And it seems pretty certain that Gore got more votes in Florida as well, which was why they had to stop them being counted properly...

But if the state legislatures have the right to appoint the electors, if they don't like what the voters decided, why bother to have an election for president anyway? Go back to the way Hamilton wanted it done, all those years ago, where the voters just elect the legislatures and then let them take care of business.

Now if it had all been the other way round, and Gore had been a couple of hundred votes ahead on the machine count, can anyone imagine the judges in either Supreme Court having come to the same decisions?

Presumably if a couple of electors vote the wrong way, and Gore gets the Electoral College majority, Congress with it's Repubklican majority will overrule them, and appoint Bush anyway. And then the Supreme Court with its Republican majority will rule that it's legal.

At least with judges making decisions along party lines, you do know where you are.

Incidentally, wasn't there a song "Where will the baby's dimple be?"