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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...
...both teams, the extreme, conflicting emotions of Friday and Saturday were simply the distilled essence of all they had been feeling since the election. As each day brought one or more court rulings, the loser absorbed the blow and moved on--and the winner didn't bother celebrating. There wasn't time. The lawyers were due in court, and the generals were due on television; they were late for strategy sessions or conference calls with their candidate; they were keeping an eye on the polls and the catcalling protesters, the bickering recount monitors, the flawed, human, sometimes heroic county election...
...blue for Gore, and in those vast stretches everywhere else that are red for Bush. But the peace of Thanksgiving tables will inevitably be troubled - red uncles in full howl against blue in-laws. We vacillate between indignation and resignation, and we play with a perplexing intuition that the loser wins and the winner loses...
...past three Games, Harvard has led Yale in the fourth quarter and came out the loser each time. For the past two seasons, Harvard has either been ahead or tied in the fourth quarter in each game that it lost. Even the great Ivy League championship team of 1997 had a similar glitch, opening a 20-0 lead over Bucknell that slowly frittered away...
...court's reckoning, that's plenty of time for the counties to complete the counts and for the loser to contest the result before December 12, the day Florida has to pick which slate of electors to send to Washington. And well worth the wait. Legislatures are fallible - "the will of the people, not a hyper-technical reliance upon statutory provisions, should be our guiding principle in election cases" - and hand counts are supreme. "Our society has not yet gone so far as to place blind faith in machines. In almost all endeavors, including elections, humans routinely correct the errors...