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...gained campus-wide notoriety last year after being arrested for sneaking onto a plane home for Thanksgiving and is widely recognized as member of On Thin...
Unofficial tallies by the Associated Press show Bush's lead in Florida standing at 930 votes. Overseas absentee ballots were responsible for the increase in Bush's razor-thin margin. The easing of Democratic opposition to un-postmarked absentee ballots, however, could increase that margin...
...whereas only 6% were able to come up with the name of the Speaker of the House. That suits Dennis Hastert, congressional man of mystery to 94% of the population, just fine. "I don't want or need notoriety," he says. Too bad. It's coming. With a razor-thin Republican majority and House members on both sides of the aisle already in mid-tantrum over the presidential election, Hastert is not just about to become known; he could be all that stands between a functioning Congress and legislative pandemonium...
Consider what would happen if the electoral votes were automatically cast: the winner would be settled as soon as the popular votes were counted and certified. With humans involved, however, another huge cloud of uncertainty may envelop the process--especially if the margin of electoral victory is as thin as this year's. There might be public pressure on electors to cast their votes on behalf of the winner of the national popular vote. Imagine the din from radio talk shows, the threats and promises aimed at these electors. A few might withhold their votes unless their candidate agrees...
This year's result, by contrast, is a mess because Presidents and democratic principles count for more. If his narrow lead holds up in Florida, George W. Bush will have such a thin majority in the Electoral College that Gore's nationwide popular-vote lead of more than 200,000 will seem the more decisive verdict. The dubious integrity of Florida's ballot tabulations will only add to the aura of illegitimacy...