Word: lieberman
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...electorate that couldn't choose between Bush and Gore. Depending on who wins the last pending statewide race, in Washington, the Senate could be split right down the middle: 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats. If Bush wins, Dick Cheney would become the Senate's deciding vote. If Gore wins, Joe Lieberman would resign his Senate seat and be replaced by a Republican appointee, giving the G.O.P. a tiny two-vote edge--far short of the 60 needed to shut off debate and force a floor vote. In the House, Democratic gains will leave Republicans with a nominal majority of five...
...battles and government shutdowns of 1995. That's why Gore now would have to find someone to play bad cop for him, so he could rise above the fray and try to enlarge the notion of his presidency in the public mind. Nominees for the bad-cop job include Lieberman and Daschle, both of whom have a way with the velvet hammer. It would give Lieberman something to do, because nobody around Gore would expect this control-freak President to give his Vice President as much responsibility as Clinton gave Gore...
...afternoon, Gore was at the Loews Hotel in Nashville, sitting in his hotel room in his blue suit and tie, on the radio, giving interviews at five-minute intervals one after another. So were Joe Lieberman, Karenna, Tipper. Everyone was on the phone, on the air. Gore consulted with staff members about his speech for that evening, how he wanted to frame a victory and how he would handle a defeat. He asked for a section about his father, how he had lost Tennessee but had never stopped loving it and calling it home, and how sometimes it was better...
...Gore was surfing the time zones, calling tiny radio stations in rural New Mexico, urging people to vote. Lieberman was working Arizona and Minnesota. Gore's geeks were hunched over their computers hunting for paths to the magic 270 electoral votes in states in which the polls were still open. Once they lost New Hampshire, their eyes turned to New Mexico; if that collapsed, it would come down to Oregon. Even back in New York, President Clinton had quickly concluded that, with Florida, Gore had 262 electoral votes locked up. So at the moment Clinton's wife was declared...
...seemed in a hurry to drop out. He had been up for 50 hours straight by this time. But Tipper was ready to hold on a while longer, and so were some other aides, including former chief of staff Jack Quinn, who was in the lobby on the phone. Lieberman too wanted to fight. Brazile got an e-mail from her assistant saying it had been called. She wrote back, "Never surrender. It's not over yet." As they headed to the motorcade, Brazile's gut told her they were moving too quickly. "It was like going to a funeral...