The only difference...

...between the ongoing fight for the already-done Washington state governor's race and the fight for the United States presidential race of 2000 is that the GOP is far more tenacious than the Democrats seemed to want to be. Now a judge is letting them use proportional analysis in their attack on the governorship. That means that if they find 10 illegal votes cast in a district that voted 60% Democrat and 40% Republican, it's assumed that those illegal votes kept the same proportions. Yeah, it's guesswork, but there's really no better way to do it, I don't think. If you want to disqualify the illegal votes, you've got to do it somehow, and it wouldn't work to get the people who cast those votes to testify about how they voted.

I think the larger issue here is that it's still going on. The Democrats, in 2000, were urged to give up fighting for the presidency. For the good of the nation, they said. Hand recounts that have been completed in Washington State were stopped by the courts in Florida four and a half years ago.

I guess this time it's for the good of Washington State to have a protracted, six month battle over their gubernatorial election, right?

Fargus...