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...sleeping voters lie. The Democrats learned first-hand in Florida that turnout isn't everything. Thorough "get out the vote" drives produced record turnout thanks to first time voters, many of whom found themselves either fallen through the system's large cracks or somehow bewildered by the instructions that told them to punch through the cardboard and pick out the chad so the machine can read their vote...
...monuments and marble and Gilbert Stuarts, most of Washington does not resonate; it is, even now, too new and prefab and utilitarian and somehow raw (as political power is raw, as a change of administrations has its matter-of-fact brutality). But Georgetown, tucked to the side of all that, to the west of the rawness, has its trees and old brick row houses, with Montrose Park to the north and the C & O canal and the Potomac to the south, and a certain embowered resonance that suggests the secrets and traditions of power. Its axes, M Street and Wisconsin...
...Double beds. Somehow, the extra six inches on standard-issue dorm beds cannot compensate for the seeming doubling in all directions common to double beds: twice as thick, twice as wide, four pillows and four blankets. I have not slept so well in years, thanks to the combined effects of tea (see #3), solitude (see #4) and a dedicated guardian...
...Vice President Gore's lawsuit contesting the election, and I was mildly alarmed by the Vice President's brief press conference, when he pronounced himself "optimistic" (Who's unbalanced now? I wondered), and then, when the Florida Supreme Court overturned Judge Sauls' ruling and confirmed Gore's optimism, I somehow managed not to foam at the mouth. But I was surprised and appalled. And then surprised again and pleased again, 24 hours later, with the U.S. Supreme Court's emergency stay...
...confess that every now and then, in between feedings and naps, I switched the channel in the visitors' waiting room to CNN to get a quick fix on the presidential news. But after weeks and months of following the whole messy business, it all seemed somehow contrived and unimportant...