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Harvard then closed out the game with free throws, and won by a comfortable 16-point margin...
After the Florida State Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, Nov. 21 that Secretary of State Katherine Harris had to include the results of manual recounts in her certification, Gore's ground operation was confident that they'd close the slim margin of victory that George W. Bush had obtained...
...newscasts is that while all three stations have been devoting plenty of air time to political coverage this election year, most of that time has been spent on horse race reporting, coverage not of substantive issues but of which poll says what and who is ahead by what margin. Certainly, the stations believe that horse race reporting is a lot more enticing to the average viewer than coverage of complex issues...
...wanted another recount and so on. Gore has shown the country that he wants to recount the votes in Florida until he wins the election. He maintains that many votes were not counted that would potentially propel him over Bush. Never mind the fact that there is a margin of error all across Florida--let's just look at heavily Democratic districts. Bush counters this by bringing the case to court. Gore files a counter-claim and all of a sudden a court will be deciding the next President of the United States...
...work on 2004. Richard Nixon, having lost to John Kennedy in 1960 by a 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...