Word: liebermanically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...notch job thus far - and to tell the assembled reporters why he thought so: With 13 of the 60-odd counties "fully or partially completed," he claimed, Al Gore had picked up 58 net votes. "The counts were clearly on a pace for Vice President Gore and Senator Lieberman to make up the difference and pull ahead." And some of those counties were Republican...
...with nuclear time bombs like Seminole and Martin ticking on Gore's side and a lightly regarded 11th Circuit Court appeal ticking on Bush's, Gore and Lieberman are making very clear that they consider the Dec. 12 deadline to be a two-way street...
Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in a lawsuit." He added, "I don't think his support will collapse immediately, but there's got to be some real concern about a guy who lost the initial returns, the automatic recount, the first certification and the second certification...
Barring that, the Democrats want the Senate treated like community property. Minority leader Tom Daschle will probably meet with majority leader Trent Lott this week to demand that the two sides share power in the chamber. Even if Al Gore ends up President--which would mean Joe Lieberman's giving up his Senate seat, Connecticut's Republican Governor's appointing his replacement, and the G.O.P.'s getting a 51-49 majority--Democrats still want to be considered almost as equals, and Republicans realize they don't have room to run roughshod. "With this narrow margin in the Senate, there...
...pulls the trigger on a special session and anoints Bush, Gore campers say. Part of that's preemptive, and already under way - a few ordered-up grassroots protests, an "orange ribbon" campaign on the ground in Florida, and a lot of loud talk from Warren Christopher, Joe Lieberman and Gore himself about how the people of Florida wouldn't stand for it. On "60 Minutes" Sunday night, Gore hit it again: "I can't imagine they would do that...