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Gore’s America—and ours

CREDIT where it’s due. The Gore campaign turned in a phenomenal performance on Tuesday, November 7. At the time of writing, and not including the mountain of “dimpled chads” from Palm Beach, some 49,274,146 Americans voted for Al Gore. Well, okay, they’re not all Americans: A not-insignificant chunk are non-Americans who, a couple of weeks before the election, received a don’t-forget-to-voteeven-though-you’re-not-entitled-to letter from Bill Clinton, plus a complimentary “Voter Identification Card.” And another half-million or so are people who are U.S. citizens but probably shouldn’t be—part of that tide of aliens Al Gore strong-armed the INS into hustling through the naturalization process without background checks before the ’96 election and who subsequently turned out to have impressive criminal records. So let’s remove the Uzbekistani serial killers, Colombian rapists, and Welsh pedophiles. That probably knocks Al’s vote down to approximately 48,260,111. And let’s discount Granny Winnie, the Federation of Scrupulously Impartial American Journalists, Greg Craig and full supporting cast, Al Sharpton’s entourage, gay scoutmasters, partial-birth-abortion fetishists, the Palm Beach chapter of Jews for Buchanan, Alec Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, Billy Baldwin, Dimpled Chad Baldwin, Swinging Chad Baldwin, Hanging Chad Baldwin, Donny and Marie Baldwin, Curly, Moe, and Larry Baldwin, and all the other Baldwins. That still leaves out of that 49,2 74,146 at least, oh, 30,000 regular, normal, perfectly ordinary Americans who voted for Al Gore.

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Gore’s America—and ours

CREDIT where it’s due. The Gore campaign turned in a phenomenal performance on Tuesday, November 7. At the time of writing, and not including the mountain of “dimpled chads” from Palm Beach, some 49,274,146 Americans voted for Al Gore. Well, okay, they’re not all Americans: A not-insignificant chunk are non-Americans who, a couple of weeks before the election, received a don’t-forget-to-voteeven-though-you’re-not-entitled-to letter from Bill Clinton, plus a complimentary “Voter Identification Card.” And another half-million or so are people who are U.S. citizens but probably shouldn’t be—part of that tide of aliens Al Gore strong-armed the INS into hustling through the naturalization process without background checks before the ’96 election and who subsequently turned out to have impressive criminal records. So let’s remove the Uzbekistani serial killers, Colombian rapists, and Welsh pedophiles. That probably knocks Al’s vote down to approximately 48,260,111. And let’s discount Granny Winnie, the Federation of Scrupulously Impartial American Journalists, Greg Craig and full supporting cast, Al Sharpton’s entourage, gay scoutmasters, partial-birth-abortion fetishists, the Palm Beach chapter of Jews for Buchanan, Alec Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin, Billy Baldwin, Dimpled Chad Baldwin, Swinging Chad Baldwin, Hanging Chad Baldwin, Donny and Marie Baldwin, Curly, Moe, and Larry Baldwin, and all the other Baldwins. That still leaves out of that 49,2 74,146 at least, oh, 30,000 regular, normal, perfectly ordinary Americans who voted for Al Gore.