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...group had its eye on the coveted Wolff Cup, the silver cup awarded to the winner of the annual tournament...
...Americans are eventually unable to decide between a popular vote and the Electoral College, one final option exists--namely, to split the difference and make the popular vote a "state," with five or 10 electoral votes going to the winner. In such an election, states would still matter, but the candidate chosen in the popular vote would have a better chance of reaching the White House. At some point, however, the system runs into a brick wall--if it's impossible for the popular vote winner to lose, we might as well have a pure popular vote system...
...quickly took a few minutes of national airtime trying to shut it behind him. This time it was the local news, just after 11 p.m., and the p.r. volleys flew far and wide. "I don't know what those ballots will show," Gore insisted. "Our democracy is the winner tonight." The vice president asked again, just as safely, for a peace summit with Bush, asked again for both sides' troops to keep their voices down. (This with David Boies due up next from Tallahassee.) Then he gallantly insisted upon the sanctity of electorhood, forswearing the support of any Bush electors...
...Maybe. Because this aggressive, newspaper-reading, activist court was in fact rather discreet about the one factor that according to the numbers will pick the winner: the dimples. Oh, they hinted at it, calling "voter intent" to be paramount and citing an Illinois Supreme Court case that read a dent like a vote. But these seven Democrats were obviously a little worried what history might think of their politics. So they passed a little bit of the buck...
...week of general humiliation, there was some good news for the TV networks: they did accurately award Florida to the winner. The bad news: they also awarded it to the loser. Dan Rather assured viewers they could take CBS's election-night projections "to the bank"; then the networks had to make two costly withdrawals. It was, in the words of CBS and CNN election consultant Warren Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida...