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...gulp of CNN on the latest court ruling letting the hand count proceed. Look, Gore just got 53 votes in Broward! (Note to TV execs: Please reinstate the running hand-count tally.) Hey, no certification this Saturday! Bush will have to cancel the champagne and the Four Seasons ballroom. Celebrating Saturday night would be premature exuberance...
...second act is the story of Charity and Oscar, and is more consistent that the first act. The pace of the show picks up, and only lags when Charity and the dancers are left in the empty Fan-Dango Ballroom. The scene is set before the Ballroom is open, but the three dancers get lost in the vast amount of empty space...
...Lightning was striking everywhere by the early evening of Election Day, as hundreds of optimistic state Republicans gathered to watch the returns in the grand ballroom of the Doubletree Hotel in Tallahassee. When the networks first awarded Florida to Gore, around 7:50 p.m., the party mood deflated fast. In an upstairs suite, the state's usually boisterous Republican leaders were thunderstruck. "There was dead silence," says Brogan. "It didn't seem possible." Al Cardenas, the state's GOP chairman, was frantically checking returns on a laptop that showed Bush ahead in the few precincts that had reported. Knowing that...
...they would account for more than 16 percent of the state's overall vote, almost double the usual black vote. Less than an hour after the network announcement, the Republican response began to take shape. Brogan and the other officials in his suite went downstairs to the ballroom to announce that they had serious doubts about the networks' projections. "We didn't believe Florida was over," he says...
...husband's rollicking riffs, asking of her opponent, Rick Lazio, when he says "Eight years is enough," "Where is he living and who is he representing?" She embraces the record Gore can't even bring himself to acknowledge. The Clintons' togetherness peaked at her 53rd birthday party at Roseland ballroom (haul: $2 million), headlined by Cher, Tom Cruise and Robert De Niro. True to form, Clinton wiped away a tear at the height of the festivities, while Hillary feigned surprise with her trademark raised eyebrow and shocked "Ooh" when spotting a familiar face in a room full of them...