Word: chadness
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...sincerely held views. When they become excited about the dangers or benefits of affirmative action, it's not out of the question that their displays of emotion are sincere. But until Nov. 7, there was no obvious liberal or conservative view about manual recounts or absentee-ballot applications. A chad was not a subject to invoke the passions...
...bags of chad on eBay have been sold off. The last Washington lawyer has left Florida, apparently setting off a smoky fire on his way out. On the news channels and in the papers, the faces of the Supreme Court justices have given way to those of the incoming Bush administration. The election is over...
...when the slumber of the holidays is over and we wake up in January 2001, America will have a new president, a fascinating new political scene and four years before it has to worry about holding another presidential election. Chad jokes will be so 2000, and Congress will be busy enough just trying to act civilized without giving an inch to the enemy across the aisle...
...turnout isn't everything. Thorough "get out the vote" drives produced record turnout thanks to first time voters, many of whom found themselves either fallen through the system's large cracks or somehow bewildered by the instructions that told them to punch through the cardboard and pick out the chad so the machine can read their vote...
...because of that, we are about to be rewarded. While all of unemployed America spent eight hours watching a Ryder truck filled with ballots travel at the speed limit across Florida, one brave woman in Los Angeles saw that truck as a way to bring joy to this chad-torn country. Or at least to make some cash...