Word: papering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
...Bush has already won. And why shouldn't they think that? Gore did, too. The networks told everyone that "fact" on the morning of November 8, and Gore nearly conceded as a result. I figure that if you voted for Tom Dewey in 1948 and picked up your morning paper saying your guy had won, you probably thought Harry Truman subsequently stole the whole thing...
...That those little pieces of paper were not, for bizarre reason, known as "monicas," and that the word "chad" in no way is the kind of term that makes Beavis and Butthead laugh...
...Remember, shellac is for porches, not for hairstyles. If the paper is reporting on your coif but not your competency, it's not good news for your campaign...
...Dimpled chad" are two words Gore has never uttered in public, and therein lies the wiggle room. He can let the Democratic canvassing boards do their best for him, and turn superlawyer Boies loose on Harris and the paper pregnancies. And by Monday, he can loudly credit democracy and justice with either his triumph or his demise, depending on the numbers and the mood of Democrats on the Hill...