"Not that there's anything wrong with that!" Recount Collection

[EMunster]

I'm proposing a thread where we collect -- from news stories, speeches, interviews, anywhere -- that one phrase that we're all so familiar with, get annoyed reading/hearing, but think we understand its strategic genius -- whose purpose is, like the Seinfeld line, to head off a known land mine, or a moment where we can be labeled "tin-foil," "bitter-enders," etc. I've started looking for the line. It's so awkwardly placed sometimes that it always pops out at you, however it's phrased.

(I'm waiting for the day when John Kerry will say, "We've won Ohio, the electoral votes, the popular votes. I've been sworn in as President, been spending a year doing the job -- though I don't expect any of that to change the outcome of the election.")



Here's the Seinfeld from a Washington Post Story 12-15 12am


"It is unlikely that such "lost" voters would have changed the election result -- Ohio tipped to President Bush by a 118,000-vote margin and cemented his electoral college majority."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1803&e=1&u=/washpost/20041215/pl_washpost/a64737_2004dec14