Word: liebermanically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lieberman did not specify the reasons for Gore's contest of the election, but lead Gore lawyer David Boies said it would be based on at least three grounds, all involving incomplete recounting or votes he said had been tallied for the vice president at some point and later discounted...
...sources told TIME, Daley and Christopher quietly informed the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, that if Gore couldn't win on the hand recounts, the campaign would fold its tent. They cautioned that "the principals aren't there yet"--Gore and Joe Lieberman weren't yet ready to go along--"but they will be." Daley and Christopher would find a way to get the message to them...
Gephardt feared that if Harris certified a Bush victory, House Democrats would start abandoning Gore. "People are saying, Enough is enough," a leading Democrat said Friday. "It's time to be a good loser." To buy time, Gephardt organized a Friday-afternoon conference call for Lieberman and House Democrats. About 120 phoned in to hear Lieberman's pep talk. At 4 p.m., as he was making his case to the members, Gore strategist Bob Shrum broke in with some startling news: the Florida Supreme Court had forbidden Harris to certify the vote on Saturday. The court wanted to hear arguments...
Roberts insists she is a patriot--a freedom fighter, not a lapdog--even though she has a Gore-Lieberman bumper sticker on her car. "The freedom that we have to be able to speak our minds--and the vote is part of speaking our minds--is what makes us a great country," she says. Privately, however, she has told friends that the current uproar probably means she will have to give up her dream of being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...
...Gore wasn't waiting until dark - Monday afternoon, he set up an ostentatiously televised conference call with Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle (on camera) giving the party blessing to Gore and Lieberman (disembodied voices). The spin flew so fast, it could have been a psychic-friends infomercial. Gephardt and Daschle followed up with a press conference, doing some math that showed Gore victorious "if all the votes are counted." Film of Gore and Lieberman on the phone followed that...