Word: daleyisms
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...Daley bounded out onto the stage, the crowd chanted, "Stay and fight" and "We count" and, finally, "Fuzzy math...
...them. The networks had unfurled their fancy presidential script, "George W. Bush, 43rd President," only to roll it back up again. The New York Times had to stop the presses. The Gore mob back at the hotel were as happy as they had been distraught about an hour before. Daley was telling reporters what happened. "When you're done, come into the bar!" Carter Eskew, Gore's old newspaper friend and now his message adviser, hollered...
...Fine," Daley answered. "I'll do the Today show from there...
...look grave and reliable and say that "we are not on the edge of a constitutional crisis, and we don't intend to provoke a constitutional crisis." Gore himself made a statement in the afternoon - measured, careful and, to the true believers, infuriating. Gore and Christopher and Daley were all the types who take the long view. But the activists felt cheated and disfranchised and were looking for Fighting...
...That is also why, as the legally required machine recount was taking place, both sides ramped up the war of words. By Thursday, Daley wasn't doing a very good job of containing his anger. He accused the Bush team of trying to "presumptively crown themselves the victors, to try to put in place a transition," thereby running "the risk of dividing the American people." With that the markets began to wobble, the nasdaq bungie-jumping 87 points before springing back up again...