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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Florida can't get its act together by Dec. 18, does Bush or Gore still need 270 to be President...
...start with the Electoral College and then get to the Florida mess. Why did the Founders set up this system...
Bush had been on an emotional roller coaster. He went through Tums and Mylanta and Rolaids, his stomach churning like a boa constrictor, to use his words: "At first it didn't get that tense. George was riding so high. He came out of Philadelphia with all the surveys showing him ahead. We felt he did a good job at the convention. It's like a football game. If you are three touchdowns ahead at halftime, then you don't worry so much...
...Then George was down, and some of the members of Congress were running for cover, worried they were going to get killed all up and down the line. Barbara and I stayed up in Kennebunkport until November, but the fishing gave way to anxiety. It's been tension city since...
...About three or four days before the election, the reports were beginning to get very positive, upbeat; then along comes the Kennebunkport incident with John Newcombe. I stayed awake all night and the next day. Barbara and I had totally forgotten about it. Calvin, the police officer, came to our house and said, 'George, I got to take you in.' I don't know what really happened that night. George was with John Newcombe, a black-belt beer drinker. He was arrested for driving too slow. He accepted his responsibility...