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Clinton's victory depended on some intangibles. Time heals wounds--perhaps not Hillary's inner ones but those nursed by some voters against her for the mess she was part of in Washington. Other voters may have believed she shouldn't be made to suffer--or that she suffered enough--for her husband's sins. New Yorkers want someone bigger than life, and Little Ricky was no match for a vanity candidate like Hillary...
...need a Constitutional amendment to avoid another mess like Tuesday's, but it's unfair to blame the architects of the U.S. Constitution. They simply put the framework of an Electoral College into being, specifying that each state would choose an elector for each of its U.S. Senators and members of Congress. The rest was left to Congress and the states, and when the national party systems took shape in the 1820s, the states began to have voters choose party slates of electors when they voted for President. Most electoral-vote results became winner-take-all outcomes, which they remain...
This year's result, by contrast, is a mess because Presidents and democratic principles count for more. If his narrow lead holds up in Florida, George W. Bush will have such a thin majority in the Electoral College that Gore's nationwide popular-vote lead of more than 200,000 will seem the more decisive verdict. The dubious integrity of Florida's ballot tabulations will only add to the aura of illegitimacy...
Consider those goofy "butterfly ballots" in Palm Beach County. That was a mess, but not a plot. If you're going to rig the vote in a Democratic stronghold, you don't draw attention to the crime by shifting the tally to some right-wing drooler. Even Pat Buchanan was surprised to learn he had racked up votes in condominium precincts made up almost entirely of retired Jews. I suppose it's possible that they loved his position against free trade and have forgiven him for questioning the extent of the Nazis' responsibility for the Holocaust, but I doubt...
...whole mess has forced the candidates to behave slightly out of character. Gore, who turns hello into a treatise and who squeezed in one last town meeting at his voting place in Carthage, gave a very brief press conference cautioning his supporters that they would have to await the electoral vote despite his apparent win of the popular vote. He urged patience. He jogged and played his usual touch football with Tipper and the kids to the predictable gibe that he was acting Kennedyesque. But that's as presidential...