31st December 2004, 1:29 PM
When the vote is really, really close you'll never know who really had more votes. All you can do is recount until the courts say to stop recounting and keep the last vote taken as the "correct" one... who knows who got more votes in Washington. No one ever will, probably. But the Democrat was ahead after the recounts so the Democrat wins. There is nothing underhanded about it... it's about not giving up until you're forced to and it's the obvious thing to do for anyone! If it was the Republican 150 votes behind after the first count the Republicans would have done EXACTLY the same thing.