Word: casting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...give the Democratic mantra - that not all the votes had been counted - and to start immediate p.r. preparations for the long and turbulent "contest" phase ahead. "From the beginning of this extraordinary period, Vice President Gore and I have asked only that the votes that were cast on Election Day be counted," he said in his warm-up for Gore's Monday morning address, calling the Secretary of State's count "incomplete and inaccurate." James Baker answered moments later by saying: "At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point...
...Monday address until the Supreme Court rules, the veep has to rely on the polls that say a majority of Americans still have a feeling that the vote has been kind of fishy. That there are votes in Miami-Dade, in Palm Beach, in some other counties, that were cast by Democrats for Gore with good intention but lousy execution. That those votes are out there somewhere, waiting to be found, interpreted and put in the veep's consistently rising column...
...canvassers were meeting; when a brick flew through a Democratic party office window in Broward County with a note warning, "We will not tolerate any illegal government." Prospects that were unimaginable one day become probable the next: It will go to the House, no, to the Senate; Gore will cast the tie-break vote; Could Strom Thurmond end up president? Dick Cheney's fourth heart attack fit the script for a week of jumpy tempers and raw nerves...
...Kaleidoscape wastes no time in introducing its star. He makes an appearance sans makeup before the show even starts; then, in a clever opening number, the entire cast helps Larible get into costume and in character. It's like seeing one of the great mysteries of the circus revealed before your eyes...
...Florida court sprayed its decision with fragrantly pietistic aerosol to the effect that "the right of the people to cast their votes is the paramount concern," but what the Justices meant was that such dynastic masters of electoral arithmetic as William Daley, of Cook County, Illinois, should be permitted to continue with their interpretive foraging amid the chads until they come up with the total they need...