Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...commission is also making all decisions collectively, instead of assigning a single commissioner to make all the decisions for a campaign...
Ryba was anything but haughty in discussing the game, dwelling not on her impeccable outside touch but instead on the defensive lapses she said gave the game away...
Gore, who can often be moody and stressed, has been eerily confident amid the pressure, "ridiculously upbeat," as an aide puts it. "He thinks he's gonna win. He has very little doubt." Instead of doing what he normally does in meetings--sucking the oxygen out of the room--Gore has been energizing the conference calls and emergency strategy sessions. When an adviser says, "Gore has been really great," he sounds almost surprised...
...Gore camp claims to have been stunned by Harris' rashness in refusing all recounts and not maintaining a pose of impartiality. Instead, she banked the fires in all three counties--and Gore's folks can't believe Bush let her do it. "They just totally blew her credibility," says a Gore adviser. "If they had been 10% less brazen, they'd be 50% better...
With Bush's defenses against the recounts threatening to crumble, Republicans are second-guessing his static, defensive strategy. Instead of running out the clock and relying on Harris, why hadn't his team pushed for hand counts in Republican counties where he might pick up more votes? His aides explained that doing so would destroy his argument against Gore's recounts and that even in counties Bush had won, their analysis showed more miscast ballots came from Democrats than Republicans. Whatever that may say about the aptitude of voters from the two parties, it told Bush's people that demanding...