Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...print journalists use it to plan election coverage; we all use it to lord our insiderdom over less-well-connected pals. The monopolistic source of the data is the Voter News Service, an exit-polling and vote-counting consortium of the major TV networks plus the Associated Press. (TIME, like many print publications, pays a fee to share in some of the information.) Since the networks set up VNS in 1990 - saving themselves a bundle on their own polling operations - the system has worked fairly well, save for miscalling a New Hampshire Senate election...
...That's not the way we do things in America," she huffed. Since when? Suing one another is all we do in America. And heaven forbid that someone would look to settle a real legal question before a judge rather than in the court of cable TV, Justices Novak, Press and Matalin presiding. After predicting a Dickensian legal quagmire, the Bush team raced to the courthouse on Friday to try to prevent votes from being counted by hand in four Florida counties, as election authorities had agreed to do in response to Gore requests. The Republic survived...
...whole mess has forced the candidates to behave slightly out of character. Gore, who turns hello into a treatise and who squeezed in one last town meeting at his voting place in Carthage before his home state rejected him, gave a very brief press conference cautioning his supporters that they would have to await the electoral vote despite his apparent win of the popular vote. He urged patience. He jogged and played his usual touch football with Tipper and the kids to the predictable taunts that he was acting Kennedyesque. But that's as presidential...
...much-anticipated end-of-Thursday, end-of-the-recount press conference held by Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris revealed that with 53 of the state's 67 counties reporting, George W. Bush was winning Florida by 1,784 votes. Which was the same count the AP had already forwarded to the chattering class for dispensing to the bound-to-be-curious-who-their-next-president-will-be viewing public...
...electoral apparatus, was to tell the roomful of reporters what they hadn't come to hear: They'd be done maybe Tuesday, maybe not, and anyway they should come back Friday, when they'll have the absentee ballots and there'll be only one number that matters. The press' numbers are meaningless, and quite likely to be wrong...