Word: get
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...often to bring their man in front of the cameras. Tuesday and Wednesday they talked about herding the press corps to the ranch to show off Bush's good spirits. By Thursday they decided that things were going so well that the candidate didn't need to get in the way of the news. "The news in Florida was so good," an aide says, "we'd let it speak for itself." But by Friday afternoon and the state supreme court's decision to postpone certification, the good news was going bad. Soon after that, Bush left his ranch for Austin...
...opposition's moderate ranks. The House isn't quite so close, but the theory still applies: with a lead of just 10 or so seats out of 435 (a couple of House races remain too close to call), Republicans will at least have to placate their moderates to get anything accomplished...
...provided it with a dramatic, perhaps historic turning point--to either her benefit or her detriment. She bounded onto George W. Bush's campaign as his hard-charging Florida co-chair. Watchdog groups objected when she used the secretary of state's office--and taxpayer money--to produce get-out-the-vote TV ads starring Bush boosters like General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Thus last week, when Harris unloaded decision after decision that appeared to be in lockstep with Bush strategy, cries of partisanship sprang up immediately. Harris, 43, insisted that her rulings were "independent," but many Floridians say otherwise...
...Democrat like political consultant Ron Sachs, a former aide to the late Governor Lawton Chiles, says Harris has proved "a masterful hardball politician under extraordinary pressure. She's made sure that every move she makes says, 'I'll be damned if I'm the one who's going to get blamed for costing [George W.] Bush the election. Let the courts do it.' Her stock will rise after this...
...cheers for democracy in action. But should the future of free elections rest on the continuing popularity of big hair? The one heartwarming lesson from the Bush-Gore debacle is supposed to be that every vote counts. The less comforting lesson is that a lot of votes don't get counted. Thanks to the spectacularly imperfect voting methods in use around the U.S.--scribbled paper, antique voting machines and those finicky punch cards--hundreds of thousands of ballots are discarded each year. American political campaigns may be marvels of scientific polling and precision focus groups. Then comes Election...