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...Congressional Democrats are still betting on him. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt even told Gore and Lieberman so Monday afternoon in that ridiculously scripted, nationally televised "conference call." The Washington Post and the New York Times, making the rounds of members in both houses, found that support for the vice president's cause runs pretty deep...
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...Like everything else in Florida this fall, it's gone national. Joe Lieberman was out in front of the cameras in Washington before the committee's gavel was cold, warning that the move would set a "terrible precedent" for future elections and "threatens to put us in a constitutional crisis which we are not in now by any stretch of the word." He asked them, Bush-style, to "reconsider." Gore spokesman Chris Lehane, dusted off for the attack, called the special session a "Bush-brother brazen power play designed to circumvent the counting of the votes in our court system...
...line: Miami-Dade stopped counting because of time constraints, not lack of crowd restraint. Bartlit quoted an independent Miami-Dade canvassing board member describing the GOP crowds - there merely to protest the closed-to-the-press proceedings, Bartlit said - as "noisy and peaceful." Lieberman and other Democrats' charges of thuggery, Bartlit said, were "designed to heat up the situation." Bartlit's job is to cool...
...Well, I said during the election to many of you that I didn't think the polls mattered. And on Election Day, sure enough, contrary to the polls, Joe Lieberman and I carried the popular vote nationally by 300,000 votes," Gore segued, while making a mental note to give that reporter a ton of access. "I'm quite sure that the polls don't matter in this, because it's a legal question...