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...Wednesday by the House, but Sunday night the state's Senate leader cried whoa. Is this merely a show of sagacious dissent, to derail charges of railroading, or is there real dissension in the ranks? Cheney has perfected the shrug on this issue, but he might consider a loud plea for the local folks to wait a week - the last thing Bush needs right now is another reason to look illegitimate. (Next-to-last: the emerging GOP fight for a hand recount in New Mexico...
...most significant message of the day may have been put forward by the lead Temptation, the natty, gray-maned Barry Richard. (Think of Baker as the band's manager.) Amid the legalese about the tortuous contest-phase give-and-take between the legal teams, Richard emerged with a plea very similar to Al Gore's: Be patient, because this is going to take a while...
...afternoon after making his big-picture plea for patience to the American people, Gore came out for reporters Tuesday with a new angle, courtesy of the new Bush legal team: My plan for the contest takes nine days. Theirs takes forever...
...Bush this year--over capital punishment. Within two hours of the court's decision, the Vice President got more good news. The canvassing board in Miami-Dade County decided to begin a hand recount of its 654,000 votes. And a federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected Bush's plea to stop all manual recounts on constitutional grounds...
...same way. They are the only men who know what it feels like to be stalled just outside the White House door. Gore's friend Harry Reid, the Nevada Senator, who has been through two election recounts of his own, got a call from Gore on Monday--a plea not for help or information so much as empathy. "It was just a conversation where he was remarking that he had won a quarter million more votes than his opponent, yet this was coming down to hundreds of votes in Florida," Reid says. For all the talk about how Gore...