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AS267: Just How Close Was Al Gore to Being President?

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Thomas Smith

News, Atheism, Skepticism, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Politics, News Commentary, Progressive, Religion

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Torrez is here to tell you, he was REALLY REALLY close. Andrew takes us through the background politically and through was he views as some mistakes the campaign made that cost Gore the election and maybe America, dearly. Andrew also takes us through the legal intricacies and implications of the election and Bush v. … Continue reading AS267: Just How Close Was Al Gore to Being President?

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 267 and I'm your host Thomas Smith.

0:36.3

Joining me right now is someone named Andrew Terese,

0:41.6

I don't know, I'm not sure how he pronounces it but Andrew I'll just say Andrew how you doing

0:46.3

Thomas I'm great. Thanks for having me back. A guest that I and the listeners are likely quite familiar with.

0:54.1

So last time, we left a huge teaser,

0:56.8

as you always do, you always leave a really interesting teaser

1:00.1

for the next topic, Bush v Gore.

1:02.8

And this is a, this is going to be interesting because you'll know,

1:06.9

listeners will know, I've been going back and forth, even on guest spots I've done,

1:11.5

not just the one you're going to mention but another one where we're talking

1:14.8

about you know our people to blame if they vote third party to elect Trump etc etc so all kinds of

1:21.9

interesting stuff going on. And also, we've got a cool announcement

1:26.3

for the end of this episode. So make sure you listen through to the end for a really cool announcement.

1:31.1

But at long last, let's go and talk about Bush v. Gore.

1:36.0

What do you say? So first thing I feel very passionately about this I think if your listeners haven't heard your guest

1:44.6

appearance along with Eli on the Gathius Manifesto which is it's now either

1:50.9

the immediately prior one or two previous where again you were talking

1:56.3

about President Trump you had a great episode here on atheistically speaking I

2:02.3

I don't know what more you can do to sort of sound be alarm.

2:08.0

And now that's why I bring in the big guns. I'm bringing you in. Yeah.

2:11.0

So you may have, I certainly have gotten into the argument that there is historical

2:19.4

precedent for third parties influencing an election and the clear example of that is the 2000 election of Bush versus Gore and I thought it would be fun to kind of revisit that bit of history.

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