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What should the loser do? First, be elaborately gracious--for 15 or 20 minutes, anyway. Call for national unity. Congratulate the jerk who beat you. Walk away jauntily, as if you'd won. In a sense, you did. No talk about stolen elections. No "I was robbed!" Don't look back. Americans are sick of the subject anyway, and have drawn their own conclusions...
...margin of problematic votes, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for Governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like 5 o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...
...loser this time starts with a constituency of exactly 50% of America--give or take a precinct. The entire American yin has been radicalized against the whole American yang. The memory of the 2000 postelection chadfest will revive an angry energy in 2004, which will produce the biggest voter turnout in history...
...winner this time will run for re-election in 2004. Should the loser fear he won't be renominated for that race? George Bush is probably safe with the Republicans. Al Gore has the Hillary problem, which four years hence may be powerful...
...winner this time will run for reelection in 2004. Should the loser fear he won't be renominated in 2004? George Bush is probably safe with the Republicans. Al Gore has the Hillary problem, which, four years hence, may be powerful...