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...Texas Gov. George W. Bush is declared the winner of the 2000 presidential election, one of the scapegoats of Democrats will surely be Ralph Nader. The lawyer, consumer advocate and presidential nominee of the Green Party has had a significant impact on the results of the election, in the all-important state of Florida, where his 90,000 votes, if they had gone to Vice President Al Gore '69 (as Democrats presume), would have determined the outcome of the Presidential election far before the networks could make a mistake...
...decision capped an extraordinary day of legal wrangling over the ballot count in Florida. The state's 25 electoral votes will likely determine the winner of last Tuesday's presidential election...
...like "...we won't know until all the marbles and chalk are on the table." His coverage past 2 a.m. was beyond eerie, as a clearly unhinged man attempted to fill airtime with histrionic Shatnerian pauses and complex explanations of simple arithmetic. When Dan finally, and awkwardly, announced a winner, I, like many others, cursed our country's fate and went...
...meet personally, one-on-one, as soon as possible, before the vote count is finished, not to negotiate, but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America." Not only before the outcome, but afterward too, wherever Bush wants, so that the pair can "unite the country behind the winner as soon as this process is completed." Get it? Unite, not divide? Fade out: They walk arm in arm into the sunset...
...Bush camp has already offered Gore a one-recount endgame; this is the week for Gore to think about it. On Tuesday, the state of Florida seems determined to certify a winner of the machine recount, and at week's end (now Saturday) they'll have a final number with overseas ballots. The vice president, while he decides how many more generations of legal and electoral wrangling he wants to endorse, will be hearing from high-end Democrats how he'll get blamed for dragging this thing out. And how he'd be much better off running...