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...Nicastro wonders, saying the Nader candidacy became an egomaniacal crusade that failed in every one of its objectives. Nader did not get the 5% of the vote needed for the party to get federal funding; the Green Party is splintered; Bush might be President. Says Nicastro: "It could overturn so many of the things Ralph Nader has fought for, which makes it perverse...
...Friday at midnight) maintain Bush's lead in Florida, Harris could certify the votes Saturday and declare Bush the winner. First, of course, she'll have to get past Florida's Supreme Court, which on Wednesday and Thursday refused legal moves to block hand recounts, and might well overturn a circuit court decision or a unilateral conclusion by Harris, and order the manual recounts to continue and be included in the statewide figures...
Closer to home, we are deeply disappointed by the voting results of Massachusetts ballot initiative Questions 2, 3, 4 and 8. Massachusetts residents voted to amend their state constitution and overturn a state supreme court precedent by denying incarcerated state residents their voting privileges. This decision has symbolic ramifications more than anything else; prisoners have never voted in especially strong numbers in Massachusetts and have never had any significant impact on election results, but they have now been stripped of a fundamental civil liberty...
...stake during this election. Gore has forcefully advocated women's abortion rights, even though it is a politically polarizing issue. His voting record indicates that he is a stalwart supporter for the rights of gays and minorities. Bush's conservative appointees, on the other hand, could mean an overturn of Roe vs. Wade. During the final presidential debate, Bush refused to define his cryptic term "affirmative access." Although we are discouraged by some of Gore's moderate and conservative stances on social issues, such as the death penalty, we are confident that the vice president will continue to protect...
...toward the defeated Milosevic. The RU 486 question tied him in knots. He didn't want to remind such a large audience that his official position on abortion is to recriminalize it if he can change enough hearts. So he fudged his earlier statement that he would seek to overturn approval of the drug, saying a President is powerless to do so against the Food and Drug Administration. He got lost in a hypothetical financial crisis and said he would hug his way out of a domestic one. On his signature tax cut, he kept criticizing "the man's" (that...