Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Translation: Whoa. The court didn't make a final decision, just planned a hearing for Monday at 2:00 - these guys can't work weekends at a time like this? - but the upshot is that Harris can count the absentee ballots Saturday morning if she wants. She or AP will tell us who won. But Harris can't declare the winner...
...Expect to hear from Warren Christopher or Bill Daley within the hour, because while both sides wait for the Florida Supreme Court to uphold or toss out Judge Lewis's decision, the challenge in the meantime is to make the result look good to the public. But while Baker tries to make holding the line sound like the proper course, the Gore team figures to have an ace up its sleeve: the numbers...
...vice-president's scheduled 4 p.m. press conference Friday wasn't going to be a happy one. He was going to have to come out and make his plea to the American people for more time. For more patience. And, most of all, for them to ignore Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris when she stood up on Saturday at noon and declared George W. Bush to be, in the eyes of the state of Florida, the President-elect of the United States...
...Gore said. "This election is a matter that must be decided by the will of the people as expressed under the rule of law, law which has meaning as determined in Florida now by the Florida Supreme Court." Throw in the usual undeniable boilerplate - "The American people want to make certain that every vote counts and that every vote is counted fairly and accurately" - and it practically sells itself...
...door to next week is wide open. While polls are starting to show public impatience, they also say a majority is still behind hand counts in principle. Certainly Gore's case for including them is a lot easier to make with the highest court in Florida backing him up (so far). And meanwhile the counts go on, in Broward County and Palm Beach County, with the numbers slowly trickling into Gore's column. Miami-Dade, under heavy Democratic pressure, on Friday decided to join them and hold what could be a million ballots up to the light...