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Harvard barely waited to make its comeback. OK, it waited twelve seconds...
...OK, Florida. What happens if the state's electors are still under legal challenge by Dec. 18, the date they have to vote? Could federal or state courts enjoin the electors from voting on Dec. 18? A: It's possible but unlikely. First, courts are generally loath to get into electoral issues, let alone one this hot. Also, since the Constitution mandates that the electors all vote on the same day, if Florida's electors don't vote with the rest of the country on Dec. 18, the state would forfeit its electoral votes...
...OK, let's assume a total nightmare. The electoral college doesn't pick a president, the House and Senate don't pick a president - all by Jan. 20. What happens? A: Clinton has to leave office and, under the Presidential Succession Act, Strom Thurmond, the president pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President...
...Ok, no. Actually, what we do is we sit in a room and try to beat out an outline for the movie. Say, you know, we come up with a story line. Actually, on this movie, me and Hurleyhee were writing and Covert was helping and Jack, our producer. And we didn't have a flow going, and we called this guy Steve Brill up, and he actually rejuvinated us and got us a good story line. And we all jamed together on that. It's just trying to make each other laugh. Trying to have the script make some...
...None of this means anything (just as, it turns out, the networks' first call of Florida, it turns out, didn't mean anything either). And as a sheepish Tom Brokaw is himself saying now, "Just because we project a state... doesn't make it so." OK. But projecting a state should mean a pretty solid confidence that you're not going to need to un-project it. If you don't have that confidence, then why project it? Simple. To win a pointless, irrelevant journalistic competition...