Jim Richardson's "Vote2000/2001"
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An even-handed, non-partisan condensed look at the 2000 Presidential post-election funnies. Updated archives of hot links to straight and/or humorous news articles, comedy monologues, cartoons and online satirical games & animations from diverse views as compiled by humor coach, keynote speaker and sometimes political consultant Jim Richardson. Read his grab bag digest that politicians, CEO's and stand-up comics turn to for the latest goofy change in events!

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Beginning with 12/11/00, text pieces and some cartoons launch pop-up windows which you may want to enlarge for easier reading. After reading the piece or cartoon, you can explore that site further, or just close the window. (This "Vote2000/2001" page will remain up so you can use it as an index and go directly onto the next text piece or cartoon.) Past issues
Cartoons from a guy named best cartoonist by the National Press Foundation: Finish line 2000 | Didn't count
This cartoonist won the Pulitzer Prize and has served as President: Politics makes strange bedfellows | Stranger than fiction | Capital ideas! | Wagging the dog
Daily reports on:
1/1/2001, cartoons: The Economy Punk | Baby transition | Bill's rights
USA population changes, way cool: 1800-2000 interactive chart
News: Christian conservative defeated by dead man to be accused of racism which is bogus; he would better be accused of opportunistic politics--but who in the Senate can "cast the first stone?" Anyway, controversial Bush nominee Ashcroft challenged
12/31/00, cartoons: Risk for risk's sake | How to prolong airport delays | Stopping the countdown | Ashcroft's other role | New economy movin' in | Father Time joins Bush team
12/30/00, cartoonist who won 2000 Pulitzer Prize and is still funny: Infant IPO | Education labels | Emotional Xmas card lists | When you buy the ref | We know too much | Interested African Americans | 12/8/80 | The new racial profiling | Banana Republicans | Which military voters? | Rocket scientists vote | If only . . . | Vote 2000 nostalgia sets in | W's influences | Cutting off your support system |
12/29/00, cartoons: Jump-Cut | Packing it in | What price for what truth? | Victory margin 2004 | Missed hoop | Getting past the guard | In a trance
This one gets updated a lot, PI one-liners: Bill's private stock
12/28/00, census=House seats reassigned: Map of changes | USA population up 13% in past 10 years!!!
12/27/00, satire: 'Machine' Politician Exposed By Photos
Polls for 8 years, timeline--as term ends: Clinton's approval ratings soar!
Cartoons: Environmental protection | Dirty laundry | Trojan attorney general | When butterflies attack | Knew him well
12/26/00, analysis: Nationally: A Racial Gap in Voided Votes
12/25/00, cartoons: Thank you notes | Bailing | Profit-tears | Cleaning up
12/24/00, cartoons: Health Care | Viagra
Color commentary: Bush II gossip: Hostess with the Mostest, first time more people in high-tech than gov., the "in" place to live is suburban McLean, VA | W's opinions
12/23/00, cartoons: This just in from Florida, ... | In any other country, ... | Recession
12/22/00, analysis: How GOP double-teamed Gore in FL | Parallels Between First Families
12/21/00, cartoons: Spelling it out | Shaking hands | Being judicious | Moon on Mars | Cellular | Mr. FixIt
News finale, it's now official: Gore wins popular vote by exactly 539,947 votes
Commentary: How Bill Clinton can still give make Al Gore, 43rd President of the United States
12/20/00, news: Election Anger Fuels Inaugural Protesters, already features a Police infiltrator | To catch a thief
12/19/00, FL ballots scrutinized by media as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post discussed pooling their resources to conduct a statewide tabulation. The Miami Herald has decided not to cooperate with them, though a spokesman said it was considering proposals from other newspapers to join its effort. Ballots to be put in categories, then public can decide who really won Presidential Election
Electoral College vote to be challenged 1/6/2001, Bush asked to conceed election | Beyond the Supreme Court: 2 Ways Al Gore Can Still Become the 43rd President (12/11/00 article clams 6 ways but 4 have already gone past deadlines) Democrats cave--Should We?
Cartoons: Gore turns back on Yogi | McCain's back | Bush math | Rule! | Fatherly advice: updated 12/12/00 | The new mandate
12/18/00, Electoral College give Bush 271 votes of 270 needed to win, effort to make 3 electors unfaithful fails.
12/17/00, final campaign? Non-partisan--online campaign to persuade at least three electors to vote for Gore on Monday, December 18, 2000 by contacting all GOP electors--published phone numbers and e-mail addresses with instructions, forms to mass e-mailing
A Layman's Guide to the Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. Gore
Hail to the Thief!
Analysis: Gore's past, future
12/16/00, cartoons: Do election or opinion polls have "margins of error?" | How the inagural celebrations will begin | What that "W" stands for now | If you saw what I saw
Analysis: Spin doctors
News: Newspapers Near Court OK for Florida Ballot Review
12/15/00, cartoons: Court cameras | Heartbeat away | Fans spell it out | Hammer time | That lady!
Hot PI monologue and heated panel Wednesday, 12/13/00 with John Henson, Marina Sertis, Michael Warder and Amy Holmes: Hours after Gore's concession speech
12/14/00, news: Gore Concedes; Bush Reaches Out | Analysis: Gore Goes Out on a High Note | Timeline: The Path to the Presidency | Commentary: It's Over; Let the Healing Begin
Cartoons: Appointment | Replay
12/13/00, news: Gore and Bush Speeches tonight
Cartoons: Trust people | Just us | Equal protection | Thankful for technology | Fingers nailed | Gentleman George
12/12/00, the under reported story: African Americians cheated out of their voting franchise in FL | Bush Lost 9 to 1 Among Blacks
Cartoonist at Akron Beacon Journal: show me, or it's Checkmate
Dark humor from another cartoonist give us--Issue of Satan
News: US Supremes Divided on Whether Hand Recount Can Be Fair while FL Supremes vote 6-1 to reinstate 11/21 decision that the justices had vacated | 3:56pm EST, FL House Approves Bush Electors | Seminole, Martin Absentee Ballots Survive Final Challenge | GOP argument "lack of common standards" could ultimately benefit Democrats | 10 pm EST, United States Supreme Court 5-4 Ruling Effectively Gives Election Victory to Bush, Gore to address nation Wednesday | Text version of Complex decision | 65 page PDF version
12/11/00, Supreme Court arguments 11am EST, audio tape (hopefully) available immediately afterward on radio and TV. Under Florida's expansive "sunshine" law, the ballots will be publicly available for counting by news organizations and others.
5:56pm EST, Supremes butt of Satire | Lawyers mocked
Will the madness never stop?
12/10/00, a news-less day gives us "the pause that refreshes" and some hot cartoons: The Final Solution
Cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer who has the Pulitzer Prize, former Chief medical illustrator: | Substance | Another tie | Partisan Hatred
The Dallas Morning News Editorial cartoonist: Bush packing | Early spring | Clinton redeemed | Next time around already | Stopped singing | Final, final tally | Dueling victory speeches
Analysis of: shifting strategies | Monday's Supreme Court arguments, immediate consequences expected | Nation's Fault Line Divides Justices, Too
Color: Turbulent Ride for Each Side
Satire: A Presidency Down for the Count
12/9/00, FL Supremes follow only half of Jim's suggestions--expand staff for recount (to even include circuit court judges) but retained no logical standard for determining voter intent. Follow-up procedures and 12/10/00 Sunday, 2pm "deadline" ramrodded through by take-charge Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis. He prohibits partisan dabates over each ballot; i.e., no b.s. slowing down the count this time. County canvassing board members caught flat-footed: in Lafayette County, where 171 of the county's 2,670 ballots registered no votes, the elections supervisor, Lana Morgan, said she had not yet heard about the court's ruling and had no plans to recount any ballots--"We don't plan on doing nothing!"
US Supremes shoot back, stay FL vote count, arguments heard Monday: masks of decorum fall, gloves come off as Justices kick each other verbally under their robes of office.
Hyperbolic metaphors aside, the press misses Jim's point which majority Justice Scalia mentions "letting the standard ... vary from county to county"; i.e., that is the killer the FL Supremes keep ducking and which keeps coming back to haunt us.
Justice Stevens' dissent accuses the majority of hijacking the electoral process in favor of Bush as the stay effects preventing every legal vote from being counted before the 12/12/00 "deadline," unprecedented in USA history and the traditions of the Unites States Supreme Court--the High Court has done a very low thing.
Of course, there is truth in what both guys say. But, hey: it's only 3 pages. Read it yourself. Can't wait to hear the audio tape after the 90 minutes oral arguments before the US Supremes, Monday, 11 am EST. No-holds barred caged match? Be there or be square!
PDF version: Mandate of the FL Supremes stayed Non-PDF version: Supreme Court's Decision to Halt the Florida Recount
Washington Post: Analysis: High Court Fractures, Exposes the Seams | Slim Majority Raises Fear of Court Partisanship | It's too late for logic
New York Times: New Tally Is Cut Short
12/8/00, "We begin to continue": Bush wins to keep GOP absentee votes in Seminole & Martin County but loses the big trial of the day--FL Supremes order all machine-disgarded ballots in all FL counties to be counted, Bush files in Supreme Court to stop count:
Satire, 12:42pm, A Farewell to Chad | Satire revised, 5:31pm, Bush Gored
12/7/00, re. "November 7, a day that will live in Infamy!"
Democrats start online petition to stop FL legislature's attempt to usurp electoral process; to be errected at State Capitol in Tallahassee: Democracy Wall of Ribbons
GOP counters with tell the Vice President to concede: online petition
Fl party web sites--GOP | Democrats
News: absentee ballot trials swing between adjacent courtrooms: "It's crazy, ... it's chaos!"
New York Times (big file, slow Internet connections will take longer to view) best explanation so far, can really see what the lawyers have been talking about. Fun, cool: check it out!!!--Interactive Guide to Punch-Card Voting
From the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world: Turkey roast | Missed cue | The Day After, 11/8/00: fallout | Custody | Never use a cannon ball to kill a fly
Cartoonist who still lives two doors down from the house where he grew up: Let us reason together | How many cards? | Little bit pregnant | Not Bingo
News update, it may be all over--except for the laughing: liberal press sees all trials not going well for Gore as even judges appointed by Democrats aren't buying it and/or don't want to get involved in the other two branches of government's business. All may be resolved by tomorrow if courts remain unwilling to compel unwilling election boards in predominately Democratic counties to count skipped ballots--like, the court would have to establish a logical standard and an expanded staff who can meet a deadline--duh! So, the weirdness continues. And that's not all . . .. No matter what the judges decide, FL Legislature may . . .. Well, here's the links: Two Key Absentee Ballot Suits | Court, Legislative Actions Converge | Fla. Justices Seek New Remedy | Legislators Face Complex Endgame
12/6/00, Month-and-one-day after Election Day, satire: Scratch the Surface for the 'Multiplier Effect' | So speaketh da voter
News updated 3:15 pm EST: Worm turning? Again!?! 11th Circuit Court denies Bush appeal & GOP told by Leon County Circuit Judge Nikki Clark (Democrat) that in Seminole County "there is no right to a jury trial"
News updated 5:40 pm EST: Florida Legislature panics, ignores Monday's opinion poll (see 12/4 below), makes unpopular decision to: hold special session Friday & pick its own slate of electors; first time this has happened since 1868
12/5/00, Month after Election Day--FL Supreme Court and Seminole & Martin County: court dates this week | Blame undersized Miami-Dade County tabulation room: How a 40 feet by 40 feet space & County's tradition of election corruption changed USA Presidential Election history | Nasdaq Has Best Day in History; Dow Jumps 338
12/4/00, Miami Hearld, 10 am EST: US Supremes speak but still have no finish, FL Judge Sauls pauses to interpret | Washington Post, 5pm EST: Sauls overrules Bush's expert witness and rejects Gore's case: Gore takes it to FL Supreme Court
Apply online right now for: Bush-Cheney Transition & get job that starts after January 20? | For advice on job security & wise contingency planning, get: Joe Lieberman's written response
Latest opinion poll self-contradictory
12/3/00, Bush witness at FL trial says handcounts "wise"
Gore wins by 25,000 votes if . . .
12/1/00 color commentary: US Supremes: hottest gig in town!!! | Caught red-handed in Seminole County, GOP defense is: "Go fly a kite!"
Straight news: FL Supremes find "butterfly" fliles; US Supremes--after a 90 minute act, they still need a finish
11/30/00-----Satire: Follow those one million ballots in that truck to Tallahassee!
News and self-satire: Canadians study butterfly ballot, even blind people look
Several views of hotly contested butterfly ballot
11/29/00-----Canadian hand count

Past issues of "Vote2000/2001":
Eighth issue sent 1/1/2001, highlights from 12/25/2000-1/1/2001
Seventh issue sent 12/24/00, highlights from 12/18-24/00
Sixth issue sent 12/17/00, highlights from 12/11-17/00
Fifth issue sent 12/10/00, highlights from 12/4-10/00
Fourth issue: 12/3/00, highlights from 11/27-12/3/00
Third issue: 11/26/00 (updated) | Second issue: 11/19/00 | First issue: 11/13/00
Stuff going around before first issue | Various added 11/28/00
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Third issue of "Vote2000" 11/26/00, sent 9:40 pm PST; updated since

This just in----FL certifies vote and . . . it's now official----Ralph Nader lost!

Here's a little humor for everyone--enjoy!
GOP--From his hospital bed, Dick Cheney gets laughs talking to the King | Transition Team
Conservative web site--recommended links
Democrats--not a good week. Where were your jokes? Send 'em if ya got 'em. OK: here's some--President-Elect Bush | In the anti-Spock world, 2+2=5 | December 6, 2000: day of the Seminole's revenge
Nader Folk--Michael Moore predicts: Bush or Gore may win!

PI doesn't always have the transcript of Bill Maher's monologue on site. Listed here are links to recent rather delightful exceptions. Missing the best one-liners because you don't want to stay up past midnight? Not to worry. This fast-loading link gets you past all of ABC-TV's menus to a web page that changes as often as the transcripts get typed up. Get to read all political points of view emotionally expressed in a no-holds-barred forum. Hilarious! :
11/10/00, somewhat prophetic
11/17/00, parody of a children's classic, "How the Grinch Stole the Election" followed by a hot and very funny panel with advocates for the three Presidential candidates getting big laughs as each brilliantly expresses their view--Billy Connolly, Rep. John Mica, Betsy Hart and Carrie Fisher.
11/24/00, Hi, I'm Chad

Libertarians--Insensitivity Training
History--in the Information Age, 110 year-old chads are chided but IBM workers still swear chads make great wedding confetti.
Overview of largest peacetime mobilization of legal talent in the country's history.
Friday, December 1, 2000 at the US Supreme Court: Why, it's 1876 all over again
Analysis of FL voter fraud and related incidents--Pessimistic history Vs. Optimistic projection
Now, on the Web everyone can create their own point-of-view to explain the FL election, and they are as the satire and folklore spreads
The future of--military funding
Have a very happy shopping season!
Jim

Second issue of "Vote2000" 11/19/00, sent 5:12pm PST

In the spirit of the Holiday Season, little something for everyone. Enjoy!
GOP--Best seller | Focused ballot (scrolling required to see all the jokes):Vote here!
Democrats, just you try voting for Gore in FL on a --(Flash): BET
Nader Folk--Send in the U.N. Observers and Jimmy Carter
Analysis--Candidate's different styles revealed in their post-election strategies | Election Odyssey 2001
Bill Clinton shows why he did not pardon this year's--Thanksgiving Day Turkey

First issue of "Vote2000" 11/13/00, sent 12:11am PST

Now, you too can twist and manipulate the politicians just as much as the media: Big Fun!

Stuff going around before creating "Vote2000"

Myths that predict winners in US Presidential elections
Vote trading across state lines, strategy unique in USA History: Be a Nader Trader
Photo of the real "butterfly" ballot | Graphic argument against "butterfly" ballot
Lady behind the infamous "butterfly" ballot
Missing ballots everywhere!!! | FL Judges have power to upset elections
What the butterfly ballot looked like to:
Democrats--the seminal cartoon that started it all | Similar idea | Voting Game
GOP--Democratic reform of FL Ballot | Moron shouldn't vote | Interactive Ballot

Various added 11/28/00:

The "Palm Beach Pokey"
Dancin' Dubya
President-Elect Strom Thurmond's Cabinet Selections

How Humor WINS Elections

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