Word: chadli
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With every day that drags by in the chad-infested swampland of South Florida, home to pundits, protestors and ballot-counting functionaries, one thing has become increasingly clear...
...despite gale-force political winds and media glare. For all the experience of men like Baker, Christopher and Daley, they had never been here before, didn't know the landscape, couldn't buy a map. They had never tried to win a presidential election that was hanging like a chad. And so they ran on instinct and adrenaline and grit, exhausted, their moods careering from absurd highs to grim lows each day, sometimes each hour. "It's peaks and valleys, peaks and valleys," says a top Gore operative. "We win every day. We lose every...
...been patient, understanding that a close race may take time to sort out. But by last week the conduct had become so reckless that patience required some courage and faith; reasoned arguments about fairness were drowned out by angry mobs charging that Gore was "the Commander in Thief," a "chad molester," even as Democrats charged that Bush would burn down the White House before he'd let Gore live in it. The uniform code of conduct in a democracy - the assumption of good faith that allows politicians to quarrel one day and compromise the next - was sacrificed to the reality...
...That those little pieces of paper were not, for bizarre reason, known as "monicas," and that the word "chad" in no way is the kind of term that makes Beavis and Butthead laugh...
...Dimpled chad" are two words Gore has never uttered in public, and therein lies the wiggle room. He can let the Democratic canvassing boards do their best for him, and turn superlawyer Boies loose on Harris and the paper pregnancies. And by Monday, he can loudly credit democracy and justice with either his triumph or his demise, depending on the numbers and the mood of Democrats on the Hill...