Word: error
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...News called Florida, and thus the presidency, for Bush. Soon every network rolled the President Bush graphics; the crowd whooped in Austin; and Gore called Bush to concede. Newspapers prepared BUSH WINS! front pages that would leave them black, white and red-faced all over. And the error traveled across news web sites like a virus (including, for a while, TIME's). "Unless there is a terrible calamity," ABC's Peter Jennings called it, "George W. Bush, by our projections, is going to be the next president...
...world's greatest economic powerhouse, cradle of the information age, was counting ballots by hand. One hundred million people had voted, and the outcome danced in the margin of error. There were murmurs from all over the country, not just in Florida, of broken voting machines and missing registrations and disappearing ballot boxes and intimidation and confusion, a growing conviction among true believers on both sides that this prize was about to be stolen. The sleep-deprived commentariat talked of a country divided and a constitutional crisis looming, which may not have been true, but it didn't hurt ratings...
...voted twice, but you meant to vote only once for the candidate of your choice? It's too bad, but there is really nothing you can do about it. It's human error, and there's no remedy for that. We've just got to live with it. There will be no winners even when Florida is resolved...
Your useful Election 2000 guide (News, Nov. 6) has one glaring error--Bush is not "pro-life." While he does wish to criminalize abortion, he is also an enthusiastic supporter of the death penalty. Gore opposes Bush on abortions but agrees with him on the death penalty, though perhaps with more reservations...
...Wednesday morning, back in Nashville, Democratic insiders are already hurling accusations: The Gore campaign made a critical error in yanking Clinton out of Florida when they did, as one popular theory goes. But Al Gore never wanted to win this race because of Bill Clinton. He wanted to win in spite...