Word: blame
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...would blame the people of Florida if they were starting to get a little snippy, as Al Gore might put it. First they provided - and endured - the superabundant drama of Elián González. Now all the frustrations of one of the closest elections in American history have made a landing on Palm Beach. Florida is the center of a struggle over the operations of American democracy at every level, from the wisdom of the electoral college to the arrangement of punch holes on a paper ballot. Fidel Castro's foreign minister, Felipe Pérez Roque, even...
...Some news veterans blame the blunders on competition. "Making the first call is all a question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors - or at least wouldn't multiply them...
...both 1824 and 1876, the popular-vote winner was deprived of the presidency. But in neither case was the electoral college to blame. The House of Representatives denied the presidency to Jackson, and the rigged electoral commission denied the presidency to Tilden...
...escalation that Israel has been warning of, in its repeated threat that it will 'know what to do' if violence persists. Throughout the current intifada, the Israelis have been saying they know the individuals behind this. The Israelis blame Fatah's Tanzim militia for most of the violence. Hussein Abayat, the guy who was killed, was fairly powerful in his neighborhood, and the Israelis believe he was behind the attacks on the Gilo neighborhood, which had so frightened Israeli public opinion...
...Gore loses, the blame for his loss fall more directly on votes taken away by Green Party candidate Ralph Nader than on votes Clinton might have...