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...Bush p.r. mantra of "the votes have been counted and we've won every time" has been so successful that I imagine that many Americans are wondering what the Florida Supreme Court is on about...
...That's kind of a mantra that's heard around Cambridge," Jennings says. "It's heard and it's picked up by people who are on the fence...
...economy, stupid" is unlikely to be the mantra of any of the candidates in Israel's forthcoming election campaign. Barak is still desperate to cobble together an eleventh-hour peace agreement with Arafat to take to voters, although prospects for such a breakthrough are receding almost daily as new waves of violence wash away progress toward a cease-fire. Indeed, parallel with his election track, Barak is still pursuing the option of sharing power with Likud leader Ariel Sharon in a national unity government - a handy tactic for both men to postpone the challenge of the election's undisputed front...
...Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman appeared minutes later to to say the rule of law had not fared so well at all and to give the Democratic mantra - that not all the votes had been counted - and to start immediate p.r. preparations for the long and turbulent "contest" phase ahead. "From the beginning of this extraordinary period, Vice President Gore and I have asked only that the votes that were cast on Election Day be counted," he said in his warm-up for Gore's Monday morning address, calling the Secretary of State's count "incomplete and inaccurate." James...
...looks like Gore is the one doing the disputing and Bush is doing the Gary Cooper thing of being strong and silent. In fact, of course, it was Bush who first went to the federal courts and first to the U.S. Supreme Court. For Bush, who has made a mantra of local control, this is like trashing the big bully behind his back and then enlisting his services when you get in a brawl. You'll notice that the Bush campaign called the Florida Supreme Court an "instrument of the Democratic party" when it agreed to let the manual count...