The problem with recounts is that they almost never result in a change of the results. And, when they do, it is in the small elections, for a city council seat. Yes, such a change did happen in Long Beach back when der B and I lived there, but this was a case where the difference between the two candidates was less than twenty votes. That was quite unusual, and not something that happens on the national scale.
What many people don't realize (or remember) is how divisive Gore appeared to be to approximately half the nation, by trying to "steal" the election because of the "hanging chads." Just as half of the nation was against Bush winning the election, on what appeared to be electoral fraud, the other half of the nation was equally against Gore for the exact same reasons.
Hopefully, we won't have a repeat of that come November, and one or the other candidate will have a decisive victory (or, at least, the candidate that does not win will be gracious enough to lend his full support to the winner).
As it happens, I like both Obama and McCain, and will be pleased to see either one of them in the White House. That's something I haven't been able to say for quite some time. Generally, I haven't liked any of the candidates for President in the elections of the past two decades, and have been stuck for far too long with voting for the lesser of two evils. For me, this is the best election season that we've had in a long time.
