Word: get
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...have said all along, we need to get a fair and accurate count to resolve this election. The American people want to make certain that every vote counts and that every vote is counted fairly and accurately. The citizens of Florida surely want the candidate who received the most votes in Florida to be determined the winner of that state. That is why I am very pleased the hand counts are continuing. They are proceeding despite efforts to obstruct them and that is why the decision just announced by the Florida Supreme Court preventing the Florida Secretary of State from...
...that, "if it's a matter of waiting two or three days," that would be far preferable to letting Lewis on Friday - and Harris on Saturday - have the final say in the matter. "You don't call the game after the first inning or the second inning, when you get ahead," said Boies. "You wait for the game to be played...
...they knew that on Saturday, Harris would be offering the nation a number - and a conclusion. The Gore camp's case for patience from the populace would get that much tougher, and it was even possible to imagine the door getting slammed shut in the public mind by the Sunday talk-show chorus...
...simple reason: They believe there are more Democratic bodies out there than Republican ones, and those bodies who are disproportionately undercounted are typically Dems. They also know, though they're not going to embarrass their supporters by shouting about it, that Democratic voters mess up more when they get inside the voting booth. That's why in the case of the census the Democrats are in favor of sampling and in the case of Florida they're in favor of counting every last hanging chad. More is better, and whatever methodology gets you more is the better course...
...public highlight of trip was Friday's speech before a group of students at Vietnam National University. The tableau showed the considerable historic and political distance the President traveled to get here. Clinton shared the stage with a large bust of "Uncle Ho" himself, Ho Chi Minh, and down one auditorium wall hung a banner (in Vietnamese) which spoke of the "wonderful Communist party's" support for the university. Clinton addressed head-on the issue of the "the conflict we call the Vietnam War and you call the American War." But ever the optimist, Clinton tried to put a positive...