Word: dade
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...When another late-reporting state fell into line, George W. punched the air with what vigor he had left, while his revived brother smiled--and stayed on the line to his operatives back East (right). By 1 a.m. Bush's lead in Florida was 200,000 votes, and although Dade and Broward counties were yet to report, the mood in the mansion was optimistic. Shortly thereafter it was jubilant as, at 2:15 a.m., Florida was called for Bush and the Governor became, in the eyes of the networks and the nation, the President-elect. He hugged his dad, kissed...
...Gore, those around him say, the setbacks stiffened his resolve even more than the victories did. His prospects dimmed considerably on Nov. 22, the day Miami-Dade shut down its recount. But Gore was more unsettled--"shocked," Eskew says--by the melee outside the counting room, and the ABC News report the following evening that the protesters had been G.O.P. operatives bent on intimidating the canvassers. Klain described it as "a pivotal moment, a crystallizing moment of understanding what was going...
...wear, ?smart casual? will be the attire of choice. Those feisty Republicans who staged the Miami-Dade recount sit-in - later discovered to be D.C. aides to GOP Congressional leaders - were all wearing duds from the LL Bean Urbane Anarchist Collection. Revolutionaries wearing khakis and loafers...
...declined, leaving the issue to the discretion of the local counters, and the Bush lawyers to complain, with justification, that this was a recount without standards. Beck also deserves credit for adding another fine term to the Election 2000 lexicon. He repeatedly objected to a manual recount in Miami-Dade because of his worries about the "spoliation" of the ballots. (Spoliate, from the early 18th century, means to plunder in war and to injure beyond reclamation.) Lewis told Beck to put his objections in writing...
...searched myself for signs of rage, and I've come up empty. The same is true for my conservative pals (not one of whom, I'm happy to say, could be counted among the G.O.P. battalion of Brooks Brothers goons who actually did bellow and howl at Miami-Dade officials last month). Like most people, conservatives ran through a series of emotions last week. I was mildly pleased when Judge Sauls slapped down Vice President Gore's lawsuit contesting the election, and I was mildly alarmed by the Vice President's brief press conference, when he pronounced himself "optimistic...