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Less than 15 minutes later, as a gospel choir sang before a subdued Bush crowd in Austin, FOX News...
declared Bush's Florida victory. As the announcement was broadcast on a huge projection screen, the Austin crowd burst into joyful pandemonium...
...Bush is back in Austin, where he'll watch the returns with his family. The governor's last-minute push included stops in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Bentonville, Ark., tweaking both Gore and President Clinton with rallies in their home states. Gore, who was on the road until early Tuesday morning, is also taking a break at home in Carthage, Tenn. The vice president worked a 30-hour day Monday, flying between Iowa, St. Louis and Flint, Mich. before arriving in Florida...
...George W. Bush loses, expect him to get the spanking of his life in the media. We got the first inkling of what the post-election story will be this evening, when MSNBC's Brian Williams remarked, after a couple of key setbacks for Bush, that in Austin, "The party seemed to be ready to start." In other words, Bush overreached. He was smug. That victory party, scheduled possibly to start even before West Coast polls closed, is starting - just maybe, if Bush loses - to become the Bush smirk writ large...
...Later this same hour, Michigan and Pennsylvania fell to Gore, and Tom Brokaw too was subtly taunting Senator Fred Thompson about the Austin party. This party, however, isn't quite over yet. Anybody wants to bring some Cheez-Its by the Time-Life Building in Manhattan, you'd be more than welcome...