Word: dade
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...something a little less wholesome. What about chicken? We could put Gore at the wheel of a 1972 Volvo station wagon and Bush in a 1974 Camaro, and point them toward one another at 130 mph down a long straightaway of the interstate in Miami-Dade. The guy who veers off at the last instant loses the election. It would save a fortune in lawyers' fees...
...line they'll do whatever the base says, and the base says Gore won. (Bob Kerrey's strident appearances in Florida for Gore's cause are widely credited to his own presidential ambitions in 2004 should Gore come up short.) And because the Republicans, from the orchestrated Miami-Dade "mob" to Gephardt nemesis Tom DeLay, have really been pissing them...
...Saturday, Dec. 2 (?) Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls will hold a hearing to determine, among other things, whether the critical Miami-Dade undervotes should be counted. If Sauls rules against Gore, he'll merely send David Boies across the street to the Florida Supremes (Boies may be there before then, looking for an immediate start to the counting). But with all the media attention sure be lavished on the Saturday hearing, the Sunday talkies could start a new round of calls for Gore to concede...
...Friday, Dec. 8 (?) If Sauls rules for Gore, that's the projected end of the Miami-Dade undervote hand count. (As we know by now, it's an approximate target at best.) Gore may have help from his demand for a recount of the hand recount in Palm Beach (not enough dimples, says the Gore team), and the thousands of absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin counties are a wild card. But by the end of next week, Gore will need the numbers or he'll likely be told to go back to Tennessee, with any remaining "clouds" over Bush...
...Barry Richard, Bush's version of David Boies, explained that Gore was dragging them into this contest at a very late date, having already gotten the Florida Supremes to delay certification by 11 days. And they certainly weren't going to wait around for a hand count in Miami-Dade that has already missed two deadlines, and wasn't necessary in the first place...