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While life in Nashville continued yesterday morning, the election's surprising twist played havoc with schedules, as staffers and volunteers postponed planned vacations and the media rebooked flights to stay and keep covering the campaign...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Officials Begin Florida Recount | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...crowd in Austin awaited the picture of Gore in Nashville congratulating Bush, the final twist in the plot for the night hit--CNN announced that the outcome of Florida was not certain and was being contested by the Gore campaign. Minutes later, it was announced that Florida's vote totals would have to be recounted...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Texas Disbelief: A Victory Lost | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...feel so hopeful that fully 19% of them think they are in that top 1%, and an additional 20% expect to be one day. It turns out to be Bush who makes a fairness case: Why shouldn't everyone who pays taxes get a tax cut? And in a twist of the knife, he has even made it a kind of character test, a symbol of courage and constancy. "I haven't changed my position on this issue," Bush said last week in Missouri. "I haven't fine-tuned my message. I have said the same thing for 15 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Gore and Bush: Two Men, Two Visions | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Irony of Nader. Adding a perverse twist to the knife Republicans placed in Al Gore's back is none other than Ralph Nader. The resonance of Nader's rhetoric and the role his candidacy will play in taking down Al Gore's is Exhibit A in the long list of evidence against the functioning of our democracy. Nader assails the concentration of corporate power, which voters correctly identify with. However, his one-issue view lumps Gore and Bush together, obscuring their political differences. The public's inability to dissociate these messages contributes to the perception that there is no difference...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: A Democratic Perversity | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

...that fully 19 percent of them think they are in that top 1 percent, and an additional 20 percent expect to be one day. It turns out to be Bush who makes a fairness case: Why shouldn't everyone who pays taxes get a tax cut? And in a twist of the knife, he has even made it a kind of character test, a symbol of courage and constancy. "I haven't changed my position on this issue," Bush said last week in Missouri. "I haven't fine-tuned my message. I have said the same thing for 15 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Gore: Two Men, Two Visions | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

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