Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman appeared minutes later to to say the rule of law had not fared so well at all and to 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...
...funny. Very funny, especially when he's got cotton in your mouth. He comes up with these non-sequiturs. Always makes me laugh. Anyway, at some point I entered a stand-up comedy contest and was one of the winners, and I did a comic at NYU. That started to make me think, "Wait a minute, maybe it's worth a try..." So I went to Chicago and joined a comedy group there. Took improv classes. Was found by Franken and Davis and hired by SNL in 1985. Did that show 'til 93. Then I did "Conan," which...
...surprise, however, was the ease with which B.U. scored with the man advantage as well. Harvard had yet to give up a power play goal entering the contest...
...campaign's low-wattage legal eagles outlined for reporters a plan to reappear before the same high court with a different vehicle: a contest of the original Miami-Dade results that are headed to the Secretary of State's office on Sunday. And they will fight them in "perhaps other counties," until Gore calls them off. Some say this means weeks...
...Where could it go from there? If Bush loses on the Sunday numbers, and SCOTUS turns him down, that's it. Unless he redirects, sends his lawyers back up the chain with a Gore-style contest. But that would be off-message, and anyway by then we may hear from the Florida legislature, whose Republicans can declare Bush president by a majority of representatives. Bush seems the more likely to go political...