Is 2000 in 2012's future

"Sip it, savor it, cup it, photostat it, underline it in red, press it in a book, put it in an album, hang it on the wall. George W. Bush is the next president of the United States," Rather proclaimed. He further boasted: "If we say somebody's carried a state, you can pretty much take it to the bank.Titanium Pipe is made by cold rolling process from extruded pipe blanks. They are widely used in heat exchangers and off-shore equipment."

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Voting irregularities popped up in Florida, where the Sunshine State's critical electoral votes hung in the balance. Long story short, the race that Rather and crew so confidently called turned on hanging chads, pregnant chads, dangling chads, all kinds of punch-card ballot questions and accusations. After a prolonged legal battle, the election was effectively decided by a divided U.S. Supreme Court, giving the victory to Bush, who lost the popular vote to Gore by 543,000 votes but won the all-important Electoral College vote.

John McAdams, political science professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, said a presidential deadlock like 2000 could happen this time, but it's unlikely.

There would need to be a "series of contingencies," McAdams said, like a knife-edge total in the Electoral College, in the swing states where any of this matters. Despite the latest polls showing President Barack Obama up seven-tenths of a percentage point over Republican challenger Mitt Romney according to Real Clear Politics, McAdams sees Obama's path clear although not overwhelming in the Electoral College. The winner will need to secure at least 270 Electoral College votes.

The mechanical problems of 2000 shouldn't repeat themselves in 2012, McAdams predicted.

"A lot of the problems in 2000 were the result of punch-card voting," he said. "There has been a very large movement away from punch-card voting.

There are relatively few punch-card ballots left. The federal government spent about $3 billion replacing the antiquated technology that caused so much heartburn in 2000. Optical scanners, with ovals on paper ballots like a college entrance exam, dominate the voting landscape these days, with touchscreen machines coming in a close second.

Political scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge found the number of unclear votes in the United States was halved between 2000 and 2008.

But the numbers could be lining up for a kind of constitutional crisis redux, said Lara Brown,An Optic circulator is a special fiber-optic component that can be used to separate optical signals that travel in opposite directions in an optical fiber, analogous to the operation of an electronic circulator. assistant professor of political science at Villanova University outside of Philadelphia.

"I think it's close enough that it could happen, although I tend to believe it's not going to," Brown,The approach uses fine Titanium Wire, laid one on another like a potter working with coils of clay. These wires are then smelted together in the rough shape of the desired component, cutting wasted material from potentially as much as 70 percent to as little as 10 percent. who describes herself as a "flaming moderate," the Electoral College expert told Wisconsin Reporter.

Brown analyzed party votes in 10 swing states over the past three presidential elections, averaged them and found Republicans winning six of the states, and Democrats winning four. But Democrats end up winning the popular vote based on tallies in high density areas, such as California and New York. So,The defective part of the jaw is reconstructed using a Titanium Plate, with a piece of scaffolding inserted with proteins to stimulate the bone's regrowth. in that scenario, in a twist on 2000, Republicans take the popular vote and Democrats win the Electoral College and, thereby, the election.