Word: elections
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...majority seemed to feel that it would be harmful to presidential legitimacy to allow the hand count to continue and perhaps undermine the President-elect - read Bush. The dissenting opinion essentially said, Let the recount continue so that we at least have the numbers in case we decide the Florida Supreme Court was right. What's the harm? they wondered. The majority seemed to believe the harm was irreparable...
...that, I suspect, has to do with the successful Bush p.r. machine and their shrewd assessment that in politics, as in real estate, occupancy is nine-tenths of the law and, more important, of perception. If you act like the President-elect, a lot of people will think you are the President-elect...
Nonetheless, members of the University community were surprised when Conant resigned on Jan. 12, 1953 to accept President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower's offer to become the U.S. High Commissioner to Germany...
...Bush communications director Karen Hughes was out within the hour with a typically clenched-teeth response about deadlines passed and recounts undergone (and got caught in a nasty semantic trap about why they weren't calling Bush "president-elect" yet), though she needn't have bothered - the Bush lawyers in question had already prepared us for their rejection Tuesday morning. Barry Richard, Bush's version of David Boies, explained that Gore was dragging them into this contest at a very late date, having already gotten the Florida Supremes to delay certification by 11 days. And they certainly weren't going...
...Gore certainly needed to turn the tables somehow. Tuesday saw a rash of newly released polls declaring that in the wake of Sunday's certification, a growing majority of Americans thought Bush was president-elect and Gore should concede. (How many just want somebody to concede was tricky to separate out.) A third of Gore's own supporters said they shared that view...