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Before the 2000 election, the only case of Electoral College misfire occurred in 1888, but there have been seemingly murky elections in the years since. In 1916, when Woodrow Wilson sought a second term, the New York Times rushed to announce his defeat by 10 o'clock election night. Charles...
The Bush camp isn't waiting around. Karen Hughes hit the podium Saturday to take down the hand counts from their rear-view mirror. She said the campaign has eyewitness accounts of hand-counter mischief - Bush votes in the Gore pile, and the like - and accused Democrats of attempting to...
In a completely useless press conference, Bush spokesperson Karen Hughes said her candidate would be in Austin for Thanksgiving, and that he had not yet considered the possibility of a victory party if Harris declares him the winner on Saturday.
At 11 a.m., the Bush team was coasting. Bush surrogate-in-chief James Baker, needing no more words than Gore would later, got to lean on the arm of Judge Terry Lewis and declare that "the rule of law has prevailed." Karen Hughes emerged later to discuss Thanksgiving plans and...
But was Bush affirmatively misleading about the D.U.I. incident? Slater had interviewed Bush about a different arrest, in 1968, when Bush and his Yale fraternity brothers were charged with stealing a Christmas wreath in what they described as a prank. Slater says he asked Bush whether he had been arrested...