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BEST PROMOTION OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION Pat Buchanan, who ran an ad in which a man dials 911 after choking on a meatball, then passes out while waiting for all the language options...
...Beach ballots. Some 19,000 had been thrown out because voters had punched two holes for President; an additional 10,000 did not register any presidential choice. Hearing about the ballot's design problem, other voters in the county became convinced on Wednesday that they had accidentally voted for Buchanan, whose total of 3,407 votes in the county was three times as high as in neighboring counties with different-style ballots. Buchanan, never one to miss a chance to stir hot soup if it could spill on someone named Bush, went on the air and said...
...minute counts, and what they didn't know was that VNS had a bad sample in Tampa, some faulty data in Jacksonville. Plus there were voters in Palm Beach who told the exit pollers that they had voted for Gore, when in fact their vote had been registered for Buchanan...
Still, Mama I, who often calls me by the names of her other grandchildren, Lisa and Julie, was pretty sure the Palm Beach Buchanan votes needed to be reconsidered. "How could you believe that what's his name got so many votes?" she asked. She would not admit that the old people were to blame for their inability to read a basic form, though she did concede to trouble with other basic skills. "Driving. Oh, boy! You could write a book about that," she said. "They go where they want to go, that's all there is to it. They...
...itself for being crooked. It is. Their police officers aren't the best. They're real rednecks, the police. I resent that they don't speak more English down here. I think it should be English first. But who am I, anyway?" I was starting to think that those Buchanan votes may not have been a mistake, after...