Word: democratized
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...They ignore the dimpled chad-enhanced vote (remember, the Florida Supreme Court as much as handed them the right to do just that) and appoint their own slate of (Republican) electors. The legislature could also cave to the pressure of a deadlock and appoint two slates of electors, one Democrat and one Republican, and leave it up to Congress to make the decision as to which slate will represent Florida in the electoral college vote...
...Amount Democrat Jon Corzine spent per vote in New Jersey, using some $60 million of his own money to win the most expensive Senate campaign...
When South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle became minority leader of the Senate in 1994, expectations couldn't have been much lower. After all, Daschle was one of the greenest leaders in congressional history: at 47, in just his second term in the Senate, he had never even chaired a committee. His supporters had been mostly from the younger generation of Senators elected in his class. After he squeaked into the leader's job by a one-vote margin, elder Democrats tittered behind the scenes, sure he would turn to putty in the masterly hands of majority leader Bob Dole...
...unify his party against the 1995 "Republican Revolution"--stopping dead a series of Contract with America bills that had sailed through the House. When Dole griped about the way he stalled Republican initiatives by tacking on unrelated amendments, Daschle retorted, "Welcome to the Senate, Senator Dole." Even West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who had opposed Daschle's initial ascent to leader, renominated him for the post in 1996. Said he: "I was totally wrong about this young man. He has steel in his spine, despite his reasonable and modest demeanor...
...symmetrically cracked down the middle, that we cannot decide whether we are compassionate conservatives or fascist bleeding hearts? It's not that George Wallace was right long ago, and Ralph Nader is correct now in asserting that there's not a dime's worth of difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Allowing for inflation, there's several dollars' worth...