Word: daley
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore people must harp on the idea - as Bill Daley has already attempted to do - that the court's decision is about justice and small-"d" democracy, and not about a court with an ideological axe to grind. They must also attempt to persuade the public that manual recounts clarify rather than muddy the vote, and that they are the tried-and-true method of protecting voter intent...
Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in a lawsuit." He added, "I don't think his support will collapse immediately, but there's got to be some real concern about a guy who lost the initial returns, the automatic recount, the first certification and the second certification...
...Katherine Harris, the George W. Bush ally who is also Florida's secretary of state, to announce a final statewide vote tally on Saturday--one that ignored hand recounts in three Democratic counties. The decision left the men who were leading the charge for Gore--campaign chairman Bill Daley and former Secretary of State Warren Christopher--staring into the abyss. Without the hand-counted votes, Harris would surely declare Bush the winner--and Gore's options would evaporate. Bush would throw a victory party, and the calls for Gore to concede would grow deafening. New court challenges, like...
...they were keeping an eye on the polls and the catcalling protesters, the bickering recount monitors, the flawed, human, sometimes heroic county election-board officials trying to do the right thing despite gale-force political winds and media glare. For all the experience of men like Baker, Christopher and Daley, they had never been here before, didn't know the landscape, couldn't buy a map. They had never tried to win a presidential election that was hanging like a chad. And so they ran on instinct and adrenaline and grit, exhausted, their moods careering from absurd highs to grim...
...what one lawyer calls "triage," as Harris issued new opinions and set new deadlines almost daily, and sometimes hourly, most of them designed to delay the hand recounts until they became moot. At first, the Gore lawyers were primed for battle, but by Tuesday night the mood turned somber. Daley was so tired that he began to resemble Bert the Muppet. Christopher at times looked absolutely ancient. As their anger and frustration rose, Harris became the woman they loved to hate, just as she did for Democrats around the country. If she wasn't taking her orders from Austin...