Recount

I finally got around to watching HBO's Recount. I'm not upset that the D's were portrayed as regular guys and the R's as calculating string pullers. (though Laura Dern went overboard in her portrayal of Katherine Harris as a ditz) It was a biased movie but hey, it's only been eight years; those wounds are still fresh.

So why do the D's still torture themselves with this story? The answer is in the HBO short on the making of the movie: The writer, or producer (not sure which) ends with "And the worst part is that now we'll never know how the election should have turned out."

Huh? Never know? Well of course he's upset. Somehow he missed the news that The Miami Herald and USA Today did a hand recount - just as would have been done had the Supreme Court not stopped it:

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- If a recount of Florida's disputed votes in last year's close presidential election had been allowed to proceed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican George W. Bush still would have won the White House, two newspapers reported Wednesday.

The Miami Herald and USA Today conducted a comprehensive review of 64,248 "undercounted" ballots in Florida's 67 counties that ended last month.

Their count showed that Bush's razor-thin margin of 537 votes -- certified in December by the Florida Secretary of State's office -- would have tripled to 1,665 votes if counted according to standards advocated by his Democratic rival, former Vice President Al Gore.

OK D's? So, you can move-on now.