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Although the club is still unsure which candidate it will endorse, a strong effort on their part might put Barkley's name in serious contention...
...that moment and for most of the past week, Bush seemed like one of those mysterious Soviet leaders of the pre-Gorbachev era: much was said and done in his name and under his authority, but the man himself was barely seen or heard. Since the morning after the stillborn election, Austin's strategy was to have Bush be the victor who must patiently tolerate a few technicalities. But Gore's plan to chip away at that notion has had an effect. It helped that Gore won the popular vote. And the Gore message--count all the votes--may have...
...much as Gore's team loathed Harris, Bush's wanted to throw her a parade. "Everyone here believes that she is going to put her name on the [certification] paper and call it a day," says an official in Austin. She might still get her chance, if the state supreme court rules in her favor. "At some point," the official says, "the clock will strike midnight...
...more than a century, voting techniques have paralleled the stages of the Industrial Revolution. Big metal voting machines, products of the age of iron and steel, were first used in New York State in 1892. Then as now, voters simply pulled down a lever beside each candidate's name. That permits faster and more legible counts than paper ballots. (A slow count had been one of the issues in the disputed Tilden-Hayes election of 1876.) By the 1960s, half of all voters used them...
...their leader last week, if only out of shared disgust at his enemies. Democrats kept finding new fuel for their indignation: when Trent Lott denounced the Florida Supreme Court's "unelected judges" for usurping the rights of the people by letting the recounts continue; when Florida Republicans threatened to name their own set of electors to send to the electoral college and count on House Republican strongman Tom DeLay to make sure they get seated; when an angry mob showed up to pound on the doors of the offices where Miami-Dade canvassers were meeting; when a brick flew through...