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...Volusia County has made the point moot by sending the results of their hand count to Tallahassee about 25 minutes before the deadline. (In it, Gore apparently picked up 98 votes, knocking Bush's AP lead down...
...process also demythologized it. Even the election-night debacle may have, perversely, done a public service by undermining the credibility of exit polls and electoral projections. Media critics have long argued that networks should not call races until all polls have closed to avoid affecting turnout. It's a moot argument: information will out, not least because people want it. Tuesday afternoon, web surfers overwhelmed the Drudge Report, where Matt Drudge had posted exit-poll results...
...known predictors point to a real nail-biter today, and even die-hard pundits are at a total loss to call a winner, both Bush and Gore seem confident in the outcome. And in less than 24 hours, all the speculation, all the prognostication and the guesswork will be moot: We'll finally be privy to the final chapter of this never-ending story. And then Luntz, Gallup, et al. can get to work on polling to see why it worked...
Ehud Barak can't make peace if he's not in power, but he can't stay in power if he continues to make peace. That basic dilemma explains the Israeli prime minister's decision over the weekend to flash-freeze the process and even moot plans to fence off the Palestinians into Israel's own idea of what their mini-state ought to look like. The suggestion may have prompted Yasser Arafat to tell the media that Barak could "go to hell," but the Israeli leader's reconciliation efforts right now are directed not at the Palestinians...
...file a brief here in Texas about our lawsuit, saying that the case is now moot and both cases should be dropped," Gonzalez said...