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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...broken, "so much anger...so much division," he said, and everything would be better if we just elected him to fix it. Now we find that maybe the public wants it broken, likes it this way, the divisions sanctified by 100 million choices. We are at least two countries, evenly matched, divided by geography and gender and maybe even more by culture and values, one traditional, one tolerant, and we elected a Congress that perfectly represents the split. You can split the Senate in two, but the presidency is one man, indivisible...
...just didn't sound right coming from a man who spent a year talking about how much he trusts the people. To compound the problem, it emerged that in 1997 Bush signed a law saying that in close Texas elections, manual recounts are preferable to electronic recounts; Texas law even specifies that hanging and dimpled chads--punch-card holes still partly attached to the ballot or merely dented--should be counted. Gore would be delighted to abide by Texas rules in Florida...
...Even as Gore scrambled for the high ground, Bush stuck to his I've-already-won strategy. Only one item was tossed out--the transition posturing that gave rise to that West Wing-style photo op with Bush and his Cabinet-in-waiting. The Florida battle is so all-consuming that his top people have had to put governance on the back burner; first they have to win. "Right now we're spending every minute managing this," says Hughes...
...static, defensive strategy. Instead of running out the clock and relying on Harris, why hadn't his team pushed for hand counts in Republican counties where he might pick up more votes? His aides explained that doing so would destroy his argument against Gore's recounts and that even in counties Bush had won, their analysis showed more miscast ballots came from Democrats than Republicans. Whatever that may say about the aptitude of voters from the two parties, it told Bush's people that demanding recounts in G.O.P. counties might hurt more than help. They let the deadline pass without...
...Saturday, the situation became even uglier, as Bush's team hammered Gore over the rejected military ballots and stepped up its charge that the manual-recount process was "distorting, reinventing and miscounting" the vote, as Hughes said. Alleging that Bush ballots had been found in Gore piles and that biased workers had taped the chad back into Bush punch holes, the Bush team worked mightily to convince the public that the recount process is polluted beyond measure. Democrats, of course, disagreed...