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...Friday Score a very big one for George W. Bush - so far, the midnight deadline still holds. In a ruling relayed at 10:05 a.m. by court employee Terre Cass to a salivating roomful of reporters, Leon County circuit judge Terry Lewis ruled that Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris did right. And this decision gives Al Gore's team little opportunity to celebrate...
...Back to the Gore legal team, which was immediately off and running to ask the county's circuit court of appeals to pass their appeal of Lewis's decision directly to the Florida Supreme Court. They have reason to be optimistic. After the Supremes gave Palm Beach County explicit permission to begin a manual count Thursday - perhaps heeding the county's statistical evidence that a hand count could affect the outcome of the election - they may not be inclined to see that hand count go to waste...
...evening, though, there was nothing for the Bush camp to say that was worth shuttling the candidate up from the ranch. Just after 7 p.m., James Baker could only remind reporters that the 11th Circuit Court had invited them back to Atlanta to talk hand counts when Florida was finished with them, and the Supreme Court had merely made a holding action. "We remain confident," he said, that the courts would eventually fall in behind Harris...
...part of Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis's decision to grant Harris such discretionary power, he insisted that she not make "arbitrary" decisions - and Democrats argue she has done precisely that...
...midnight) maintain Bush's lead in Florida, Harris could certify the votes Saturday and declare Bush the winner. First, of course, she'll have to get past Florida's Supreme Court, which on Wednesday and Thursday refused legal moves to block hand recounts, and might well overturn a circuit court decision or a unilateral conclusion by Harris, and order the manual recounts to continue and be included in the statewide figures...