I was only 11 during this election...

I think it was actually a fairly balanced account. Not especially biased either way.

Hey there young man. I was nine years old when I watched George McGovern lose in a landslide to Richard Nixon in 1972, and remember Nixon's embarassing resignation two years later (and his vice President Spiro Agnew also shamefully resigning the year before). I also clearly recall the Watergate hearings which led to Nixon's resignation and then US troops coming home planeload by planeload in 1975. Then Jimmy Carter's Presidency in the wake of a hungover disillussioned post-Vietnamese-era America. The American psyche was pretty beat-up then so we embraced distracting illusionalist elements like the cocaine-adled disco music scene and the weakly-nationalistic but isolational twangy-voiced dumbed-down country music scene humped-up by ABC evening surreal made-for TV movies about Bigfoot sightings and serial murderers. It was a gloomy time for America in many ways. Then - POW! we got Ronald Reagan living in a delusional "*beep* That" the US is actually still SUPER-GREAT state of mind. But for example, he did NOT single-handedly bring down the Berlin wall and the associated disintegration of the USSR. That was more to the credit of Mikhail Gorbachev's wise guidance on just how it would "fall apart". George HW Bush's Presidency was a continuation of the the Reagan-style illusion that the US was still in charge of the world, and those who would benefit and "hold onto" that faltering ideal continued to cheer. Then came Bill Clinton. I voted for him in 1992 and felt his two terms were the best in my lifetime. You can even go now to foreign countries and see his face painted on walls with positive messages alongside them. Then enter the GW Bush election. Around the world and inside the US so many people agree this was a stollen election. IMO Gore Won! and should have been the President. Then Bush won a second election and the world simply couldn't believe it! No way we would re-elect such a war-mongering DUMB President. I and many others were so embarrased he won again afterf committing so many crimes as a clearly lying shifty-eyed bandit. I still can't believe even my own countryfolk systematically re-elected that dodgey bastard. In the midst is the incredibly-corrupt one-sided Republican-spinning news channel Fox News. Those supposed "journalists" like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are such unbelievable *beep* it just begs for any semblance of integrity. Enter the holyland - the Obama victory. Many of us saw it as the ultimate victory against the corrupt and lying tyranny of these past decades. I cried with joy when he won the Presidency as did many other deeply hopeful progressive thinkers. I've lived for many years in several countries, including New Zealand (six years, I'm now a passport-carrying citizen), Australia (endless months roaming the outback in a caravan, communing with antipodean wild animals and such, photographing the excellent walking birds, roos, lizards etc other naughties and wild outback pubs), Germany (3 years mostly in small villages breathing in the wursts and sensational Christams celebrations with warmed wine and endless rad-route summer expeditons, and Great Britain (including riding my mountain bike from Land's End to John O'Groats and sampling the warm ales and cultural subtleties along the way. Now it's time for America's "Obama" moment. Let's get a hopeful tone for what he can do if only a hotly-divided congress and packs of well-paid lawyers won't stand in his way. Barack Obama represents our greatest hope in the bigger picture of what I've experienced in this lifetime. First real chance to finally show the world since that optomistic moment way back in post-WW2 1945 when we helped show the future after decades of muttered flip and flop. Come on America- Let's Go! Ultimately within our borders: Step aside and give it a chance! 2009 2010 and the coming years. Oh and "Fox News types" Go *beep* yourselves. Let's prove those sorts of incredibly selfish wealth-obsessed greedy right-winger Americans can still kepp their little fortunes, live well, and stop bitching even under a fair Obama-style administration. He's one of the best leaders to come along in decades. I'm a long-experienced mid-40s American guy. Back to what this "Recount" movie/documentary means to me - pretty easy; The 2000 election was stollen by the Bush camp. Albert Gore was indeed the victor and would have done the US and the world a much better turn. The otherwiswe "W" admistrition is a piece of *beep* and we're now trying to undue his shameful legagacy under a refreshingly-oppositional Obama administration. Clear thinking! Come on folks!

I watched this movie tonight for the first time. It was gut-wrenching to relive, as I was a Gore-Lieberman supporter and felt my country's greatness was disemboweled by this election. I was 34 at the time and had never seen our country in such division in my life. We are still in blind division thanks to the misinformation spewed by partisan hacks on both sides via the media (which is neither fair nor balanced these days- pick your news). Most Americans never paid attention to their social studies teachers. Too bad.

Laura Dern did an over the top version of Katherine Harris, who was over the top to begin with. But, it was the mechanics of the voting system that makes me now, as it did then, realize that we still have a long way to go. Well-to-do voting districts still have an advantage over those less so in getting votes counted.

But, looking at Barack Obama, who I voted for last year, I feel a subtle woe. We aren't a nation defined by great leaders. We are a nation defined by the private, corporate interests who wish to control for their benefit.

We are a corporatocracy folks. You don't have much say, no matter how educated your vote is.

In terms of chain of events, the movie was very accurate.

However, the movie was still too biased to enjoy. Even as a Democrat, I couldn't help but feel like this was a good versus evil situation. Every time a Democrat was on screen, they were trying to be reasonable and talked in the name of justice. Republicans all had untamed mustaches, grunted, and talked like they were plotting to steal the election all along.