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What he looks like is a man in charge. Cheney's reputation in Washington--whether as Gerald Ford's chief of staff, a Congressman or Defense Secretary under President Bush--has always been that of the ideal lieutenant: loyal, competent and self-effacing. His Secret Service code name under Ford, "Backseat," reflected his deferential style. But Cheney is currently playing such a high-profile role for Bush that lately he has been overshadowing his boss. In the first crazy 36 hours after election night, it was Cheney, not Bush, who made the key decision to ask his old colleague James...
...pledged to change the face of the Republican Party. Having reached out to minorities during his campaign, Bush hopes to continue doing so with high-profile appointments to his Administration. Powell and Rice would be the two most highly placed African Americans ever in an Administration. Hispanic Congressman Henry Bonilla and Texas railroad commissioner Tony Garza are close to Bush and are under consideration for positions. With such a narrow electoral mandate and itty-bitty margins of power in the House and Senate, Bush knows that such appointments would help curry favor with constituencies, which could be crucial to legislative...
...Congressman David Bonior and other Democrats warn that if Bush becomes president, there will come a time, months hence, when journalists or academics working under the Freedom of Information Act may count all the Florida votes and find that Gore actually won, thereby precipitating a crisis of legitimacy for Bush. Piffle. Bonior seems to miss the point of all these court challenges, which is to ask: By what standard do you inspect and judge the ballots? It is precisely because subjective or partisan standards are in play that the courts are trying to sort the matter out. How could...
...just borrowing tactics that Jesse Jackson and the Democrats perfected years ago and had imported to Florida immediately after the vote, but Jesse's operation was never like this. Organizers with headsets and microphones moved the protesters about, here for a CNN live shot, there to confront a Democratic Congressman, louder here, softer over there, conducting the crowd like a roving symphony orchestra. "The election may have ended, but the campaign hasn't," said New York lawyer Brad Blakeman, a top Bush campaign advanceman now moonlighting as a freedom fighter. "It would be disingenuous to say this isn't part...
Other states have held that dimpled chads may be counted. A famous case involved Congressman William Delahunt, who owes his seat to a Massachusetts judicial court's decision in 1996 to count dimpled chads, giving him a victory in a race in which he had been trailing by more than 200 votes. A Louisiana court refused to count chads in 1984, as did a lower court in Ohio in 1998. But a Texas statute expressly says a ballot can be counted where "an indentation on the chad from the stylus or other object is present and indicates a clearly ascertainable...