[QUOTE="Des"] A first (i.e. democratically elected) term would have been nice to be going on with ...[/QUOTE] Well ~around~ half voted for each side so you could have claimed that either way. IIRC the Supreme Court ruled? it can't go further. Do you really think that Gore would have been a worthwhile Pres FFS? I doubt he could even have stretched up to the level of his lying do-nothing fuckwitted predecessor and 11/09 would have given him a prolapse. Money, insider influence and business runs America, nothing is going to change that so we may as well have their main man in as we get some action rather than inaction.