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...also controversial: he became the first President-elect to lose the popular vote since 1888, partly due to skepticism about one half or the other of his "compassionate conservative" duality and partly due to doubts among some that he had enough experience or heft for the job. By his narrow and contested victory, he became a symbol of an electorate that was not (as some have contended) deeply ideologically divided but was instead rather conflicted and ambivalent as it split the difference between the two parties...
...that all this trendsetting necessarily takes a straight and narrow path. There is almost invariably always an ironic corollary to the trends set by the predilections of the President...
Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and a Harvard Law School grad, wanted to know whether the House's narrow margin has persuaded the Republicans to allocate more seats on key committees to the Democrats. Hellmann didn't have the answer Schiff wanted. "We're trying to address this," he said. "It's a matter that we're working...
...clear. That's O.K. We can still get on with our lives. Here's a look at four taxing matters likely to come under the microscope for either Bush or Gore. Forget the big stuff. After such a bitterly contested election and with an evenly split Senate and a narrow G.O.P. majority in the House, neither candidate will get anything close to what he wants. Heck, he won't be able to pick out a pair of pants without a fight...
Though the court's decision was narrow, people have accepted Bush as the next president, as they should. In his concession speech last night, Gore called for the nation to unite behind the new president. Hopefully, this has brought an end to the most closely-contested election in the nation's history...