Word: scenario
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...That's the best-case scenario for the GOP, of course...
...first scenario, the Supreme Court accepts the case, hears it all the way through and rules against Bush. In the second, SCOTUS rules for Bush on the pre-certification extension, but refuses to rule on the subsequent contesting of the Florida vote. Back in Tallahassee, if Leon County judge Sanders Sauls rules in favor of Gore and allows the recount to take place, Gore could still win the election...
...what about Miami? At 15 feet above sea level, most of the city should be safe even in the worst-case scenario of a three-foot rise in water level over the next hundred years. Cambridge would also survive such a rise. In the meantime, I hope the U.S. and E.U. can come to some understanding about the need for a meaningful deal. This is the world we're talking about here, and it wouldn't be fair to future generations of Harvard students if rising waters forced Eliot House and Winthrop House to relocate to the Quad...
...Scenario Three:Gore wins, but when the GOP-controlled Florida state legislature meets to appoint their slate of electors, they turn their backs on the count and decry the inclusion of the dimpled ballots as a gross misinterpretation of their own legislation. They ignore the dimpled chad-enhanced vote (remember, the Florida Supreme Court as much as handed them the right to do just that) and appoint their own slate of (Republican) electors. The legislature could also cave to the pressure of a deadlock and appoint two slates of electors, one Democrat and one Republican, and leave...
...Scenario Four:Either Bush or Gore steps aside, acknowledging the will of the American people for a swift and absolute resolution to the longest election night in history. The country breathes a sigh of relief and rallies round the President-elect...