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...more than a day later, the victor of the election remains unknown, with a recount in the state of Florida controlling the destiny of American politics--not even Las Vegas could have predicted this night...
...then Gore was projected as the victor in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida...
With Bush no longer the certain victor, Bush's campaign manager Don Evans arrived at the capitol in his place, describing to the crowd the situation, while remaining optimistic...
...dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion that a new poll be held in Palm Beach County was also very familiar in India. "That happens all the time here," says Rahman. "If the Florida electoral commission needs some expertise, India could...
Elsewhere, what has caused greatest alarm is the role of the U.S. media. Kenya's Daily Nation editorialized that "the alacrity with which the U.S. media announce results before rechecking is likely to cause confusion, rob the victor of his spoil, and vitiate what remains democratic in the system." Over in Paris, there was concern that the U.S. media had taken everyone for suckers. "When CNN and the other networks made these errors on calling Florida, it set off a worldwide media chain reaction," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "There is concern here that everyone from the average...