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...Throughout the day Tuesday, the campaigns knew that turnout was huge in the battleground states - lines stretched around the block in Cleveland, voters waited for hours in Nashville, and some precincts in Florida were reporting that 80% of registered voters were at the polls. In New Mexico, snowplows were used to deliver ballots in a storm; some precincts had no electricity, but the voting machines had backup batteries...
...polls closed, the Gore campaign shifted its get-out-the-vote resources westward. Gore himself gave a score of television interviews in battleground areas like Philadelphia, Kansas City, Des Moines, Albuquerque and Detroit; he also gave more than 30 radio addresses in western locales...
...then Gore was projected as the victor in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida...
...learn there are times in the upper Great Plains when it doesn't snow.) MSNBC supplemented footage of Fred Rogers going to the polls with an update on rain in St. Louis. Even the Weather Channel itself has gotten in the act, peppering its broadcast with reports on battleground-state weather, spiced with gripping footage of cars driving through the rain to polling places...
...Florida and other big battleground states don't actually get called until late, which is entirely likely, the call will be too late for California. So don't be surprised to hear mouthpieces spinning on every network beforehand. Last night, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly - notoriously hostile to the Clinton-Gore administration - adamantly predicted that he would call Florida during his 8 p.m. Fox broadcast. O'Reilly may well not get his wish. But there will be plenty of De Sotos ready to plant the flag in Florida by then anyway. Florida may be won and lost many times...