Word: lets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...heavenly impresarios decided to let the media sensations go dark for a while? The only thing in prospect after Elian was a presidential campaign, with an uninteresting cast of characters - at least after Alan Keyes and John McCain left the show. The suspense ended with Super Tuesday. We had our candidates. Neither possessed the slightest star quality. One of them - or so we thought - would be president. We turned our attention to an intuition that floated up from somewhere in the subconscious, a suspicion that the next big show might be a gaudily dangerous one, a financial collapse or something...
...Gore who went live on the evening news with a lawyer-free, two-pronged offer that was the best p.r. coup of his very long campaign: Let the hand counts go on in the three Democratic counties - or hold hand-counts statewide - and include them in the certified results. Loser takes his legal team and goes home...
...Stubbornly on opposite sides of the Rorschach test that is Florida election law, these guys sound determined to let William Rehnquist have the final say. Bush even declined Gore's offer of a pre-endgame peace summit. "Once this election is over, I would be glad to meet with Vice President Gore, and I join him in pledging that regardless of who wins after this weekend's final count, we will work together to unite our great country...
...Gore's offer, in short, to the governor: Let's count 'em all and I'll drop all the lawsuits and we'll both abide by the result. And hey - let's be statesmen about this...
...Baker also pointed out that Warren Christopher's counteroffer earlier Wednesday - to let the Florida Supreme Court decide the standards, legality and deadline for hand recounts - only proved that standards were in fact sorely lacking...