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Monday was supposed to be a really big day for the Miami Herald. After two months of squinting and peering at half-perforated and slightly dented ballots, a band of ballot-counters hired by the newspaper to comb through Dade County's so-called "undervotes" were ready to hand over a verdict...
...over this election is likely to result. It seems inconceivable that anyone, upon learning that fully 2,000 votes were firmly cast (in one county!) for no candidate at all, could argue against revising our balloting systems. Those votes, which will taunt Al Gore and 2,000 apparently disoriented Dade County residents, are a clarion call for ballot reform...
...Hugh Rodham, Dade County public defender, makes a run at one of the U.S. Senate seats from Florida. While he stomps all over his primary opponent (an "X-Files" junkie who suspected the government of a massive alien-related cover-up), he eventually loses by a gaping margin to incumbent Republican, Connie Mack...
...When another late-reporting state fell into line, George W. punched the air with what vigor he had left, while his revived brother smiled--and stayed on the line to his operatives back East (right). By 1 a.m. Bush's lead in Florida was 200,000 votes, and although Dade and Broward counties were yet to report, the mood in the mansion was optimistic. Shortly thereafter it was jubilant as, at 2:15 a.m., Florida was called for Bush and the Governor became, in the eyes of the networks and the nation, the President-elect. He hugged his dad, kissed...
...Gore, those around him say, the setbacks stiffened his resolve even more than the victories did. His prospects dimmed considerably on Nov. 22, the day Miami-Dade shut down its recount. But Gore was more unsettled--"shocked," Eskew says--by the melee outside the counting room, and the ABC News report the following evening that the protesters had been G.O.P. operatives bent on intimidating the canvassers. Klain described it as "a pivotal moment, a crystallizing moment of understanding what was going...