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...turned out to be a milestone year for the Great American Spin Machine. It was no surprise that spin was more copious than ever during the election campaign; it is more copious than ever in every election campaign. What made 2000 a special year for spin was the postelection recount crisis...
...Florida recount was five weeks of spin overload. The sheer volume of the stuff (in the sense of both quantity and noise level) was impressive enough. Consider as well how effortlessly the spin machine handled all the hairpin turns. Every amazing development and reversal in the drama was converted within minutes into two or three talking points for each side to repeat without mercy...
...issues involved in the recount made it a laboratory experiment in spin. Most had enormous partisan consequences but no ideological component. When Republicans and Democrats disagree along party lines about, say, a tax cut, it's at least theoretically possible that everyone involved is expressing carefully considered and sincerely held views. When they become excited about the dangers or benefits of affirmative action, it's not out of the question that their displays of emotion are sincere. But until Nov. 7, there was no obvious liberal or conservative view about manual recounts or absentee-ballot applications. A chad...
...Yugoslavia the people said yes to freedom again, rose up against an illegally elected President, stormed the seat of government and forced a recount...
When we first approached Bush after his certification following the initial recounts, he was willing to cooperate partly because he felt that appearing as TIME's Person of the Year on the very day that the Electoral College voted could help certify the end of the postelection conflict. He invited us to Austin, Texas, for a photo session, a two-hour interview the next day, and then a visit to his isolated ranch on the Saturday when the Supreme Court happened to stay the Florida recount...