In my not particularly humble opinion, Brother Al's biggest mistake was in not resigning when Wild Bill's moral peccadillos became so obvious...he wouldn't have had the baggage to deal with that he did in that case.

Someone suggested that the US needs a strong third party?? The problem with that is that third parties are liberal (I HATE that word) spoilers...didn't John Anderson give us Ronald Reagan?...and Ralph Nader certainly gave us George W.

If my memory serves, there have been at least two news media recounts in Florida. One looked at the counties that Gore supposedly was going to complain about, and that one's results would still have given the win to Bush. The other looked at the entire state, and would have resulted in a Gore win. In the end, that isn't relevant, since our system says that the Supreme Court decides, and they did, and Gore himself accepted that.