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...Court sent the counters back to work. Now it looked as if Gore's intricate legal case might be reducible to four words: "I got more votes." Party headquarters was suddenly flooded with calls from Democrats, entire congressional staffs, offering to jet down to Florida to help oversee the recount. "I was back in business," said campaign manager Donna Brazile. That night was the "first time I slept without a Zantac" since the election...
...reprieve was short-lived. As happy as Friday night was, Team Gore had known there was a good chance the U.S. Supreme Court wasn't done with this. The morning conference call was no carol sing; it was going to take a lot of work to get the recount machinery going again. And the Republican soldiers, lawyers and politicians alike, were loaded for bear: "This judicial aggression must not stand," said majority whip Tom DeLay...
What are you so frightened of, the Gore camp challenged--that a full recount would reveal what we have argued all along? That Gore won not only the national popular vote but the Florida vote as well? That Jeb Bush is not a controlling legal authority after all? That all those Cabinet tryouts were a little premature? What we are frightened of, the Republicans countered, is a system in which deadlines come and go at the whim of a partisan court, in which fallible vote counters are asked to read minds, in which statutes and procedures and timetables and traditions...
...Justice Breyer gave voice in his dissent to an illusion that is retailed all over America: that the votes might have been satisfactorily counted. (Yes, and the Commies will be crushed just after the Lunar New Year.) More likely, the Florida recount would have turned into a decades-long proliferation of suits and countersuits, like Dickens' Jarndyce and Jarndyce...
...election night, as Gore retracted his concession, many of his Nashville campaign staff upended their lives and rushed to all points in Florida to help in the recount effort. Over the ensuing five weeks pique set in over the fact that Gore stayed in touch with his legal team but not the larger staff. "I blame both the Gores for this," says one beleaguered Florida staffer. "He was talking to [David] Boies and [Ron] Klain [the legal team chiefs] but there was never a call to rally the troops or to thank them...