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...concession; both merely packed the Tallahassee streets with protesters and waited. And when the 5 p.m. deadline had been history for two-and-a-half hours, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris walked into the camera-filled Florida State Cabinet Room and certified George W. Bush as the winner of Florida by 537 votes...
...belongs to the lawyers, with Gore still trying to hold onto Miami-Dade and Bush still hoping Friday will see the Supremes turn back the clock to November 14. But Sunday is a politicians' day, with nothing stopping Katherine Harris from standing up at 5 p.m. and announcing a winner of the numbers war on the ground. A war that now won't settle much except giving America's cable-news hounds a new number to put a question mark after...
...those vast stretches everywhere else that are red for Bush. But the peace of Thanksgiving tables will inevitably be troubled - red uncles in full howl against blue in-laws. We vacillate between indignation and resignation, and we play with a perplexing intuition that the loser wins and the winner loses...
...know what those ballots will show," Gore said. "I don't know whether Governor Bush or I will prevail. But we do know that our democracy is the winner tonight...
...pile at issue there - with 10,000 "undervotes," 930 isn't a tall target - could get to pick Sunday's winner...