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...long-awaited certification announcement, state officials tried, without a hint of facetiousness in their voices, to emphasize that Florida's tumultuous election had finally come...
...little more sanguine than Scott is," he said. "But there's more than a hint of truth in what he says...
...same mechanisms we use to make ourselves seem smarter than we are. By midafternoon on Election Day, journalists receive exit-poll data, diced into a zillion demographic categories on whom people voted for and why. Networks use those figures to call states seconds after the polls close (and hint not so subtly at outcomes earlier in the day); print journalists use it to plan election coverage; we all use it to lord our insiderdom over less-well-connected pals. The monopolistic source of the data is the Voter News Service, an exit-polling and vote-counting consortium of the major...
...Gore's - to Washington to anoint one candidate as the choice of Florida voters and thus the president-elect of the United States. And the fact that these seven justices - who constantly interrupted their petitioners with questions and what-ifs - immediately started bandying the date about was a hint that the highest court in Florida has in its seven minds to do more than interpret the law. It may be looking for a grand solution...
...subtle hint...