It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.
Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.
I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.
No one looks forward to a recount.
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.