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When Senator Jim Jeffords bolted from the Republican Party last week, throwing control of the Senate to the Democrats and reprogramming the Capitol power grid, it took almost no time for the first signs of the new order to appear. There was White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez cooling his heels outside the Senate chamber until Democrat Patrick Leahy, now the presumptive chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could spare a moment to meet with him. There was the business lobbying group known as Arctic Power, quietly canceling a 10-state, $500,000 radio ad blitz designed to sell Memorial Day motorists...
...November, U.S. election officials watched the presidential voting system evolve outside their control as supporters of Ralph Nader and Al Gore agreed to swap votes on the Internet. Here's how it worked: a Naderite in a marginal state would vote Gore while a Gore voter in a "safe" Democrat state picked Nader, boosting Gore's support in key states while retaining Nader's popular vote. (The legality of vote swapping is still being debated in some states...
...away and plenty of people are still weary from the Florida debacle, but don't just get in the race when the last lap is beginning - then people see you as candidate of convenience. Just so you know the landscape, according to this week's TIME/CNN poll, 44% of Democrats say they'd vote for you in 2004, and 28% of all voters. That's twice as high as the next Democrat, who just happens to be your old chum Senator Hillary Clinton...
...their guard. France's Socialist Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine warned that his government would be "attentive and, if necessary, vigilant" toward the new Italian administration, while Prime Minister Lionel Jospin pointedly refrained from making any declaration at all. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat, issued a notably cool statement, saying his government "took note" of the Italian results and "respected the decision" of the voters. Britain's center-left Prime Minister Tony Blair was a better sport, phoning his congratulations to Berlusconi Monday night...
...Georgia Democrat Zell Miller, who has a very conservative voting record, has been considered a possibility for defection, but at this point he looks like a very distant possibility. Miller testily and adamantly denies he has any interest in switching sides...