Word: flips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...History flip-flopped. Al Gore got the popular vote, and Bush, for the moment, has the edge in Florida. "Jeb says George is going to win," said the former President after the vote, spirits up again, though the political realist in him had prepared earlier for the possibility of defeat. "There is life afterward, and George is very strong; he is very strong - and resilient. He will land on his feet in five minutes, but there will be hurt, deep hurt...
...going to suggest that television networks are going to learn any permanent lessons from one of their own mistakes, but I'm beginning to worry that the Florida flip-flop means that they're going to spend next rest of the evening behaving - ick - responsibly. No skylarking, no premature calls, no leaps of prognostication: just patient waiting and discussion. After the exit polls burned them once, we may have to wait until Dan Rather counts the last absentee ballot himself until we get a call in the Sunshine State. The note of caution seems to have spread to the talking...
...couple more hours of this and Bush and Gore will be offering to flip for Florida...
...though. During their first meeting the Great Leader invited Albright to a "gymanistics event" downtown. As she and Kim entered the 150,000-seat May Day stadium, a sellout crowd of blue-suited Korean Workers' Party members let out a sonorous, sustained roar as if at the flip of a switch. Fireworks exploded overhead, and the Great Leader waved. More than 100,000 performers acted out scenes of socialist glory with translated names like If the Party Decides, So We Do and The General and People Are a Single Mind. On the field, thousands of performers simulated the action...
...question is no longer if Gore has been playing too far left. It's whether he's been playing far left enough. Jeb Bush, who if he keeps up this rather dignified spinning ("Yes, it was a wrong assumption" that he could automatically deliver Florida) will be inspiring a flip-the-brothers vote by 2004, says the Republicans will win Florida and the White House because they're united and excited, and the reasoning is sound. Monday morning, Gore starts a 30-hour go-hoarse campaign marathon in which he'll try to achieve the same trick with the Democrats...