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After the last polls closed on the West Coast, the Gore spin operation shut down. Aides, with beers in hand, closed the doors and sat down in front of the single television in the room to watch the returns flow...
...pressure to do so is higher this year, because of the fundmentals of this close election: If Gore wins, he's unlikely to win it before California votes - all the more reason for Republican talking heads to spin a Bush Florida win early, and Gore partisans to do the opposite...
...know whether early TV election predictions can swing West Coast voting, as many have complained in the past. But needless to say, every little bit helps, or hurts, this year. And if the spin can in any way affect left-coast voters, then timing will be crucial. (Hence the fact that the not-exactly-neutral Matt Drudge was citing "campaign sources" - um, I'll bet those are the folks he's tight with in the Gore camp - giving polling edges to Bush in some key states...
...With the electoral stream slowing and a potential long wait ahead for Florida, there's little left to do but interview party mouthpieces and spin out scenarios, the most popular current one being an electoral tie. Which made CNN's political analyst Jeff Greenfield, who described just such an electoral scenario in his novel "The People's Choice," something of an instant expert. It led to an inadvertently embarrassing moment though, when Bernard Shaw, evidently less than thoroughly familiar with his colleague's work, asked Greenfield, "How did the electors in your novel work out?" (Greenfield, to his credit, didn...
...Meanwhile at MSNBC, the razor-close election is bringing out the fractious Irish ward politician in Chris Matthews, who's cajoling Paul Begala and Mike Barnicle to spin out fantasies of missing ballot boxes and court challenges. Indeed, as the vote total in Florida is shading toward Bush, the best chance for a dragged-out bloodbath for TV to cover may now be a legal challenge. On ABC, Peter Jennings is asking every Democratic politician who comes on the air whether Gore should fight over close states in court...