Word: openly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...relatives are currently traveling to Canada to buy their medication? How many of your elderly relatives are currently traveling to Florida to buy their medication but are so senile that they think they are traveling to Canada? If your elderly relatives had prescription drug coverage, how many could actually open the childproof caps on their prescription drugs...
...Nobody knows for sure, but there are some possibilities. One was a late and heavy turnout that had Governor Jeb Bush ordering polls to remain open until everyone in line at 7 p.m. had voted. Also, Florida's two time zones may have complicated matters, as well as the rush to get results in for the state that everyone agreed would be the first big test of the election...
...what of the two-party system itself? Has this Election Day circus of mathematical freaks birthed a day of reckoning for our two-headed system? (The founders, by the way, hated the idea of political parties.) The 2004 race is now primed to open its arms to a credible third party, and Democrats and Republicans will now find the capture of unclaimed centrists not just a strategy but something closer to a life-or-death struggle...
...ratings, it provides yet more butt-coverage for any unfortunate earlier prognostications. (Last night, many of the pundits were practically giving the election to Bush. If they're proved wrong, they could always blame it on the balmy weather in Miami.) And, during the downtime when polls are open, it adds yet provides yet more wonkish thread to spin while they wait for the returns...
...Then it was open season for those pent-up post-election platitudes. The requisite reminders that this wonderful country is capable of effecting a peaceful transition of power. The puzzled reflections that it was really Al Gore's election to lose. And at last, as memorably offered by the punchy Mr. Rather: "a big tip an a hip-hip-hooray and a great big Texas howdy to the next president of the United States. Sip it, savor it, cup it, photostat it, underline in red, press it in a book, put it in an album, hang it on a wall...