Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...delaying the process? The Gore camp, Baker said, is "unwilling to make any commitment to accept finality in this election unless it receives the outcome it wants"; they make "false statements to divert attention"; and as for the illegality of the Palm Beach ballot, "that charge has faded now in the face of the finding that the ballot is legal...
...Some Republican insiders speculate that Harris could receive an ambassadorship if Bush is elected. Better make it somewhere eminently desirable. Heaven knows, if the GOP can seize the White House in this mess, they'll owe Harris at least that much...
...Bush found the offer very easy to refuse. In his own presidential-looking televised address four hours later (which at least was in time to make the morning papers) the Texas governor said, in few words: No thanks...
...Gore began with the usual boilerplate about how this was a test of democracy, and followed with a classic Gore-as-schoolteacher explanation of why machines sometimes make mistakes. ("Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...") He insisted that those mistakes can be caught in manual recounts, recounts that are "accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters...
...Somewhere in Asia, Bill Clinton, the Hannibal of p.r. coups like this one, is cackling with delight. Because Al Gore will get his day as America's bigger man, the first to personally make any meaningful proposal in front of the nation. Bush is nowhere to be seen; he scheduled and then canceled a press availability Wednesday morning. Now Bush will be hard-pressed to stand up and turn both proposals down without sounding like he's trying to silence Florida voters by stopping recounts "already begun...