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...Whouley said. He was in the boiler room watching the Florida Board of Elections website, which, Daley says, "had the margin down to 900, and within minutes, it was 500, 200, slipping pretty quickly." By now the motorcade had arrived at the memorial. Daley told Feldman to grab the Veep and keep him from going onstage. "I said, 'Well, Michael, it probably would be good to go to a holding room,'" said Daley. Everyone's phone was ringing now. "We had no TV, everyone was on a cell phone," says adviser Greg Simon. "People were calling us from everywhere, saying...
...Counterpunch: Bill Daley, for the veep, was onstage just minutes later, saying that the legal process should take its course. First Palm Beach: "We continue to explore the possibilities of what can be done to remedy the unfairness of thousands of residents of Palm Beach County who believed they were voting for Al Gore... Our legal team has determined that the ballot in Palm Beach County was unlawful." Then the recount(s): "Waiting is unpleasant for all of us, but suggesting the outcome of a vote is known before all the ballots are properly counted is inappropriate...
...short term, there will likely be a Bush rally if he wins (and a short Gore funk in the aforementioned industries if the veep is elected). Word is the markets don't discount these things as fully as they do everything else, so Wednesday, November 8, could be a candid statement of just what Wall Street thinks of Main Street's choice...
...looks back a couple of years, the prevailing conventional wisdom about Gore was not about lies, deceits, exaggerations and embellishments. It was how wooden he was. Robo-Veep. Gore even made fun of it, often making a self-deprecating quip that he was so boring that his Secret Service code name was Al Gore. Yes, there had been the Buddhist temple incident and the White House fund-raising phone calls, but those seemed to be viewed as technical breaches of obscure laws rather than examples of outright mendacity. His overall image was of a boringly earnest Boy Scout. His Rose...
...while. (Another possible reason for that spread-legged Esquire cover pose.) And it's gotta hurt him to be hidden in the hustings while George W. Bush (whose father will be proudly trotted out in the campaign's last days) has somehow turned a smart, successful prosperity veep into Richard Nixon...