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...vote, he said, "I forgot to put postage on my absentee ballot application...
...flop means that they're going to spend next rest of the evening behaving - ick - responsibly. No skylarking, no premature calls, no leaps of prognostication: just patient waiting and discussion. After the exit polls burned them once, we may have to wait until Dan Rather counts the last absentee ballot himself until we get a call in the Sunshine State. The note of caution seems to have spread to the talking heads as well: Even predictable partisan battle-axes like Mike McCurry and Mary Matalin seem weirdly subdued...
...point - because the Gore people making the point to them - that they cling to the idea - and it's not too far-fetched - they cling to the idea that in the 10 percent of the precincts not out and counted in Florida, including that rather unusual case of some ballot boxes quote being left behind by some inexperienced volunteers unquote that the Gore people cling to the idea that..." (Sic, on all points.) Some closed-captioning writer had better be getting disability pay for following this...
...Meanwhile at MSNBC, the razor-close election is bringing out the fractious Irish ward politician in Chris Matthews, who's cajoling Paul Begala and Mike Barnicle to spin out fantasies of missing ballot boxes and court challenges. Indeed, as the vote total in Florida is shading toward Bush, the best chance for a dragged-out bloodbath for TV to cover may now be a legal challenge. On ABC, Peter Jennings is asking every Democratic politician who comes on the air whether Gore should fight over close states in court...
...there! If you have those ballot boxes, return them immediately! America is getting cranky...