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...arguments against the majority opinion, maintaining there is a possibility for a recount before a December 18 deadline. The dissents included this passage by Justice Stevens: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year? s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation' s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law." Justice Breyer wrote, "What the court has done today it should have left undone...
Your Winners & Losers feature in the Notebook section called Nader a loser because he did not get 5% of the vote. But even though his Green Party did not get the 5% needed to receive federal funding, he still won because he had the intelligence and courage to tell the truth. Nader and the Greens have taken the crucial step that will eventually turn the tide and save the nation. JAMES M. JEFFREY Talent...
...winner in the election was Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a political figure considered old hat by everyone except the voters. The big loser was the Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day, a political figure considered fresh and exciting by everyone except the voters. (I think the Alliance, a new party, chose an unfortunate name, by the way. What would you call one of its followers--an Alliance-ite?) There were two other candidates, both of whom managed to do better than Ralph Nader without being nearly as sanctimonious...
...quiet on this front, with the single exception of Bob Torricelli. The Mouth of the Democrats said on "Face the Nation" that "the next 24 hours should decide this," and that "the loser should concede." Unless he's saying Gore wouldn't need to actually count in order to be president, his money is happily on Bush...
...Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives. Marcus, a rock-n-roll critic best known for lively volumes on Elvis, Bob Dylan and the Sex Pistols, pinpoints Clinton's appearance on Arsenio Hall as the turnaround of his 1992 presidential bid. Considered a sure loser against Bush and Perot, Clinton swaggered on stage with his tenor saxophone, wailed a few bars of "Heartbreak Hotel" and instantly won enough support to capture the White House a few months later...