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...They" are the Republicans. They control the Senate and the House, as well as most of the state congresses and governorships. They have survived for eight years under a President who talks populist but thinks centrist, and is on the starboard side of his own party. After the lawyers get through picking over the Florida tally as if it were a suit against Big Tobacco, conservatives will have a purchase on the White House. They already own talk radio. In Fox News, they have their own strident TV news network. And on the point-counterpoint shows, they speak with...
...that's unconstitutional! you cry. Not exactly. As the New York Times reported Friday, the Constitution demands only that one presidential candidate receive the "majority of the whole number of electors appointed." In fact, the founders weren't all that sympathetic to states whose electors couldn't get themselves to the meeting, which used to be held in March, a full four months after the election: If your carriage got stuck in a sinkhole or your local bridge went out, you just missed the vote...
...clear now that no one on either side really knows where to take this. A lot of Palestinian leaders and intellectuals are wondering about their exit strategy and about what they hope to get out of the new intifada. Many are saying privately that they don't have an answer when they go to their leaders with this question. They're just hoping to pressure Israel into making the next move. At the beginning, Hussein Sheikh told us it was the 'battle for final status,' saying the uprising was necessary to strengthen the Palestinians' negotiating position. But right now that...
Uncertainty is the bane of Wall Street, and in America you don't get any more uncertain than an Election Day that was everything but. The markets can't start dreaming of gridlock in Washington until they actually get a president-elect, so the Commotion by the Ocean down in Florida has laid a bit of a bad trip on traders and investors used to watching politics out of the corner of their eyes...
...Being susceptible to both peer pressure and numbers that move (I have no idea what the NASDAQ is, but I can't stop watching it), I sneaked out to my polling place to get an even bigger dose of excitement...