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...courtroom encounters more reminiscent of an Elian Gonzalez miniseries than electoral politics, the unavoidable reality remains this: The election was essentially a tie. Gore may have edged out Bush in the popular vote, and Bush may have the lead in electoral votes, or vice versa. In addition, the electorate split the Senate 50-50 (pending a result from Washington State), and narrowed the GOP majority in the House to eight seats. Whether the hand on the Bible at January's inaugural belongs to Bush or to Gore, the next president will be dogged from Day 1 by questions over...
...beginning work on Lovers Rock. "I've just really been living my life and waiting for a peaceful moment where I could go into the studio and concentrate again," she says. "When I go in, I like everything in my life to be very peaceful because I can't split myself up. I have to be able to just focus on that one issue and then put myself...
...What if a delegation is evenly split between parties? A: If a candidate doesn't win a state's majority, then the state is listed as "divided" and its vote is forfeited...
...rest of us woke up Wednesday morning not knowing who would be the next leader of the free world; not knowing when we would know; not knowing if the eventual winner would be able to govern, with a Senate split down the middle and a teeny Republican edge in the House and a nation so neatly and clearly and evenly divided that it would take a pair of tweezers to find a mandate in the results. Neither side even tried...
...Electoral College vote was more split, with everything hinging on the all-important recount of nearly six million votes in the state of Florida, where the current margin of victory separating the candidates is less than 1,800 votes...