US election 2000 recount "The hanging chads"

is_that_so

If you wanted to know what went on this made for TV is worth a look. Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Denis Leary, Tom Wilkinson and Mitch Pileggi star. On RTE2 now, started at 21.00.

qwertplaywert

Saw it a few months back. Was decent, nothing spectatular though.

elshambo

Shock horror the Republicans have a serious scum element and the Democrats elect pussies:eek:

The System of "electing" Judges over their is whats truly shocking
Whatever party is in power puts in judges who are in their camp and then tend to rule in their favour from them on

The blocking names that sounded like crims names is desperate too, done for the reason that lots of black people in Flordia would have similar surnames etc (like the murphys in kerry)
Once a Pastor gets blocked from voting by one of the parties for sounding like someone else you have an broken system! :eek:

What makes it worse is
A) They won the next election
They spent the next 8 years telling the world the fair way to run their countries

Read the reasons for the american voting system given by those who set up the system

Home of the free my ar*e!

Then again the year after every election in this country people stand on their soap boxes and swear they will never vote FF again, then 6 months before the election FF hand out a tax cut and get voted back in so...:o

Ps. the thread is now probaby on some C*A/F*I watch list
& no im not into conspiricy's

Ghost Train

this was on channel4 last night i think, not a bad film

themadchef

Just watched it.... really enjoyed it. Nice warmer upper for the fun of the next few days!

Charlie

Had this Sky+ and found it a great way to burn a few hours. Some good performances in there, and overall, revealed the blood and guts of the U.S. electoral system.

Particularly interesting viewing when you consider the election that is only around the corner, and how sugar coated the coverage of it is.