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...that view has been shaped by big donors like credit card giant MBNA, which along with its employees donated $1.3 million to the Bush campaign. Its president, Charles Cawley, was a Bush "pioneer" fund-raiser who, along with his wife, gave $5,000 to help fund Bush's Florida recount fight. Heck, Cawley even chipped in the maximum $100,000 for the new president's inaugural bash...
AIMSTER With Napster on the ropes, rival getting 20,000 downloads a day. No recount on this one, Mr. Boies...
...course, Bush partisans crowed over the numbers, which came, after all, from what was supposed to be a Gore stronghold. But there were also new points of contention, all of which will likely be advanced enthusiastically in the coming weeks by Democratic loyalists. While the recount, conducted by accountants BDO Siedman for the Herald, used the most generous definition of "vote" to tally numbers, the new numbers, they reminded anyone who'd listen, includes only undervotes - those ballots whose chads were not fully detached...
...rest, however, is not so clear-cut. The recount, we are reminded, did not include the 1,840 ballots where voters cleanly punched holes assigned to no one, including 736 punched in the hole directly beneath Bush's name and 1,017 beneath Gore's. This phantom margin, apparently created by confused or distracted or perhaps just not very bright voters, would be, of course, enough to secure a Gore victory. If, that is, we were in the habit of counting votes next to or beneath or slightly to the left of where voters are supposed to register their vote...
...more complete view of the Florida vote, that will have to wait until two separate counts of the whole state are completed. The Herald and its parent, the Knight Ridder chain of newspapers, has counted all but two counties. (Officials in upstate Duval and Holmes counties have postponed the recount, fearing further disruption if the ballots were subpoenaed in lawsuits.) Meanwhile, a consortium of news organizations, including the Associated Press, the New York Times and CNN, has hired the National Opinion Research Center, a non-profit firm out of the University of Chicago, to examine nearly 200,000 ballots that...