Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...more importantly, the aftermath of the election has been educational for bread-and-butter citizens. We've all been in our usual social niches and heard the unusual conversations. Voter intent! The difference between legitimacy and authority! Electoral College! Democratic Republics! The public square has become a Gov 10 section. Lollygaging in the Square last week, chatting on my mobile with my mother (in Florida) about the election, a kindly Cantabrigian interrupted me, seeking to correct my nuanced view of ticket splitting. Everyone is talking about politics. Most people haven't gravitated toward established poles of opinion. They are weighing...
There is nothing desirable about a tainted election. The uncertainty that hangs in the aftermath, like some noxious fume, poisons intentions and debilitates resolve. Bringing our council into the clear is no easy task. But an election commission that is both fair and harsh is a good start...
...Florida Supreme Court stayed up late Tuesday to give Al Gore and his hand counts a morning mandate and a Sunday deadline - rolling up their sleeves, digging into the law and laying out a schedule for the end of the aftermath of Non-Election 2000 that runs right into December...
...fire at the Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced a depressing--but temporary--sense of its own vulnerability...
...next succession crisis came a half-century later, in the aftermath of the Civil War. In 1876 the Democratic candidate, Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York, won the popular vote. It appeared he had won the electoral vote too. But Southern states were still under military occupation, and electoral boards in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina rapidly disqualified Democratic ballots in an effort to shift the Electoral College majority to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes of Ohio. In 1876 as in 2000, both parties sent into Florida a posse of top lawyers and other notables. Among the Hayes advocates...