Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush, who decamped to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, there was no escaping the contradictions. The man who says he trusts the people placed his faith in the machines; he was protesting a law allowing hand counts, having signed one himself in Texas; he trusts the states, not the lawyers, yet he was the first one into federal court to try to halt the hand count. Congressional Republicans seethed that Bush was losing the air war; he seemed to be almost hiding from the reality of what he faced, leaving the fight to Jim Baker and Dick Cheney while...
...over again, with Democrats across the land complaining that the only reason he hadn't won was because of botched ballots, undercounted votes and the blind zeal of secretary of state Katherine Harris, co-chair of Florida's Bush campaign? She did everything she could to delay the hand counts that Florida law allows, and then said that since counties had missed their deadline, the results wouldn't count...
...duty "to respect every voter and every vote," Bush's fealty to "the laws of the State of Florida"--it was clear from the start that both sides would say or do whatever it took to win. Bush's team was right when it said Gore wanted to count and count until he got the result he wants--but Gore firmly believes he won Florida (and thus the presidency). And the Vice President's camp was right when it said Bush was trying to short-circuit the recount and hang on to his slender victory--because he too is convinced...
...also has time to think about what might have been. If he had carried his home state, Florida wouldn't matter. If his get-out-the-vote people in Duval County hadn't given faulty ballot instructions to thousands of voters, Florida wouldn't be close. But the hand count is his focus; once it is finished, he will be able to move on. "Gore needs this," says a senior adviser. "He needs to know, win or lose." Reid recognized the Veep's sense of isolation. "People feel awkward talking to you. They don't know...
...couldn't manage during the campaign: corralling people from all the far-flung provinces of his party and harnessing them into an effective team. In his final lunge for the White House, he has put aside his doubts about all the people whose complete loyalty he could never count on. He has brought in Bob Bauer, the best election-law mind in America (and a Bill Bradley guy); Boies, one of the few players who appears to be thoroughly enjoying himself but with whom Gore has no prior relationship; and onetime archrivals Jack Corrigan and John Sasso, cutthroat campaign operators...