I voted for Bush and I strongly support him. However, before the election, I felt like I was in a win-win situation because both candidates seemed very capable and more honest than Clinton. I no longer feel this way. Last week, Al Gore came on national television and said that if Florida had a hand recount the democratic party would not only drop all lawsuits but they would not support any further legal action by independent parties. Then, after the Florida Supreme Court made their decision calling for the manual recount, the count was completed and Bush still won the state.

I would also like to talk about the statement that the Gore camp has been saying hundreds of times on national TV, that there are thousands of ballots that have never been counted. Simply stated, this is not true. The ballots have been counted twice and the ballots either have no vote or two votes. Either is not a vote for president. Besides, there are undercounts in every Florida county and in most counties their are more undercounts than in Miami-Dade or Palm Beach.

The Democrats do not want to count all the ballots. They don't want to count the military ballots and they don't even want to count all the undercounted ballots. They only want to count a few undercounted ballots in the three most Democratic counties that they believe will most benefit Al Gore.

There are two possible outcomes: George W. Bush will win the election, or Al Gore will win and all the republicans in this country, rightly or wrongly, will feel like Al Gore stole this election and to a lesser extent I think that many democrats are also begining to feel the same way.