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...just freshening up his tan in Florida - the Gore camp wasn't fighting it too hard. But if Republicans are successful in getting Sunday's tallies amended, there may be at least 700 more votes in it for Bush. Which explains why Gore won't be surrendering Miami-Dade just...
...Lieberman came out in front of the vice-presidential residence Friday to soften the p.r. ground for the battle, holding a press conference to accuse Republican supporters, via "orchestrated demonstrations" in Miami-Dade on Wednesday, of intimidating the canvassing board into dropping its hand count. Expect Gore's post-certification trump card to be well cared for all weekend...
...Gore had lost on the numbers on Sunday, his Miami-Dade fight would have been a political migraine for Democrats, coming just a week after telling America that "the Florida Supreme Court has wisely set a deadline for the conclusion of this counting." On Monday, a losing Al Gore would be tossing that deadline away...
...That we'll always have Miami-Dade, which started too late for the first deadline, quit too early for the second deadline, and now has Gore's lawyers trying to force it to undertake a dimple count it never wanted in the first place, to remind us of how absurd this...
...take Miami-Dade (and any other county he wants) all the way back to the Supreme Court and poke the Florida legislature in the chest. And really catch hell from congressional Democrats who already have the votes to shut Bush down - they'd love Gore to take one for the 2002 team...