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...Twenty-thousand ballots were thrown away, and those ballots matter very much in an election being decided by a few hundred votes," Offner said. "I'm here because I'm hoping for a revote in Palm Beach County. It's a procedural question of whether elections should represent the will of the people...
Back home, Schlesinger plunged into work on what became his Pulitzer prize-winning The Age of Jackson (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy Administration, A Thousand Days). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the oss. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...
...home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence peddling by the contact-lens industry lost because of a few thousand votes for a mischievous consumer advocate. Gore is the one who campaigned as though every vote counted - and he was right...
...camp. On the confusing "punch card" ballots, some voters did not punch through the hole and left a little paper flap hanging. A machine may not recognize this punch as a vote, but a human being might, which is what the Democrats are hoping. They could pick up a thousand votes or two this way; the first may have already given them an extra 1,457. On Saturday morning, Baker announced that the Bush campaign had gone to federal court to block any manual recount...
...their adjacent offices, glued to their computers and telephones. "They were like mad scientists with those calculators," says media strategist Mark McKinnon. "They were punching them so hard and so fast it sounded like a machine gun." At various points one of them would shout that they were a thousand votes down or a thousand votes up. "We lived and died a thousand times tonight," said McKinnon. Spectators hovered outside Rove's office, looking in through a glass window. "We were all standing around like expectant fathers," says Jim Ferguson, a member of Bush's outside ad team. "We were...