How we got here:

This is the part where I remind the youngsters that in the year 2000, a conservative (Republican) lead Supreme Court halted a legal recount in which it appeared George W. Bush might have won by a few hundred voted In Florida, in an election where the ballots a Republican designed for many counties that were Democratic strongholds had irregularities (and probably miscast votes) giving us President George W. Bush before completing the recounts.