Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fiasco of this election has left many of us staring at the television screen, mouth agape, seriously wondering, If we had it to do again, would we fight the lines at our voting station as we did that Tuesday morning? The laws and statutes established to decide the outcome of a close election obviously carry no weight for either candidate. Let the people's voice be heard. TRACI ORTIZ Royal Oak, Mich...
...just possible that the average American media junkie wasn't nearly as impressed by this election as TIME was. Many of your readers would rather have had a break from the whole fiasco instead of all the postelection stuff. This was a pretty weak issue, guys. If I had a hamster, TIME would be lining its cage now. DUSTIN HALL Emporia, Kans...
...closest presidential election in American history, every chad counts. The closeness of this election--and the significant chance that simple errors may have changed the outcome--require an examination of how America could have avoided the personal and mechanical failures that lead to the current fiasco...
...consider the brighter side of derision. Look at this fiasco optimistically. Could it be that we are getting all the nastiness out of our systems BEFORE the inauguration (whoever the inauguree may be) and that once one of these clowns is anointed prince, we will (precisely because of the ordeal of denigration he has endured) embrace him, and, all hatred spent, sail serenely and bipartisanly through the next four years? (In any case, that's what I'm going to ask for when I go to see Santa in a couple of weeks...
...fiasco of last year's race for Undergraduate Council president--one of the most bitter and acrimonious in recent history--was a direct result of an inept election commission that enforced campaign rules arbitrarily and enigmatically. Thankfully, preliminary signs indicate that this year's race will be conducted, at the very least, a little cleaner...