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...Gore was surfing the time zones, calling tiny radio stations in rural New Mexico, urging people to vote. Lieberman was working Arizona and Minnesota. Gore's geeks were hunched over their computers hunting for paths to the magic 270 electoral votes in states where the polls were still open. Once they lost New Hampshire, their eyes turned to New Mexico; if that collapsed it would come down to Oregon. Even back in New York, President Clinton had quickly concluded that with Florida, Gore had 262 electoral votes locked up. So at the moment his wife was declared the winner...
...listening to unchallenged invective - where are the liberal callers? is there a lock box on their phones? - I literally got an upset stomach. (Or it could have been the sushi I bought that afternoon in the TIME cafeteria.) So I rolled the dial over to New York's sports station WFAN, where Mike Francesa and Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo were doing their usual Martin-and-Lewis routine. But not about sports: about the election. And guess what? They both voted for Bush. It wasn't until late Wednesday night, on Joe Benigno's encounter-therapy session for Jets and Knicks...
...Amin lamented that people in the world are starving while the U.S. spends billions on the International Space Station, Roxbury resident James Stone, 25, broke into the conversation...
...polling station opened for business at 7:02 a.m., a group of about 20 voters filed into the long hallway leading to the voting room. Almost immediately, the electronic vote counter misfed one of yesterday's unusually long ballots...
Toting a sign outside the Park Street T station that urged voters not to vote, Joey L. Steele, 24, said that whoever wins, the country would see no real change...