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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard Democrats said they saw no reason for Gore to concede the election, even as pressure for them to do so mounts from some Democrats...
...provided more grounds to challenge the outcome. Democrats have collected 10,000 affidavits from voters who said they were confused by the ballot's design, had trouble punching the hole they wanted or were refused assistance or given wrong instructions by poll workers. Said a senior Gore legal adviser: "Even the man who invented the machine says these votes need to be looked...
...sooner had Gore won the right to a recount than the Republican counteroffensive began - even though many states, including Texas, consider hand counts to be reliable. The judges who endorsed the recounts were denounced as biased; the exhausted counters were accused of attempting an in-broad-daylight theft of the presidency - even though Palm Beach County turned up far fewer extra Gore votes than anyone expected because of their stricter rules about counting dimpled ballots. Democrats were also stunned by Nassau County, a GOP stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than...
...Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in a lawsuit." He added, "I don't think his support will collapse immediately, but there's got to be some real concern about a guy who lost the initial returns, the automatic recount, the first certification and the second certification...
...their own calculations to make, and the math was not friendly to Gore. While GOP lawmakers were united behind Bush, knowing that their own fortunes depended on having a Republican president to help get anything done, many Democrats privately thought they would be better off if Gore lost. Even some liberal Democrats thought Bush might in some ways be easier to work with in the White House, since he would have a powerful incentive to reach out to them and make peace. Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear of a backlash...