Word: specter
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Meanwhile, the specter of a long and muddy recount by massive Miami-Dade County has been removed - by the county itself. Local officials made a hand count of three precincts Tuesday night, found a six-vote gain for Gore, and called the whole thing...
...that his government had previously relied on some of those same groups to help him win a 1994 civil war against leftist opposition in the south. But there may be more immediate reasons for shutting the U.S. out of the police work: With the Islamist opposition groups using the specter of increasing U.S. involvement in Yemen to scare up support, the last thing the government can afford to do is be seen to be giving free rein to U.S. investigators...
...failings or simple political inadequacies as the real root of his loss, Gore himself may not be so self-absorbed. As he looks back over the past eight years, and ponders what might have been over the next four, the vice president will always be haunted by the specter of Bill Clinton. The President, in all his glorious imperfection, embodies everything Gore despises, and everything he wanted so desperately...
...while Gore and George W. Bush remained divided by a margin of less than 200,000 ballots. Across the country, disillusioned Democrats, liberals, environmentalists and trade union members stuck to their guns and voted for Nader, ignoring entreaties from former compatriots scared out of the Nader camp by the specter of a Bush presidency. Gloria Steinem and Melissa Etheridge, once Nader supporters, reversed course in the last weeks before the election, and campaigned mightily for Gore. And while their efforts, as well as those of splinter groups like Nader's Raiders for Gore, may have kept Nader from the magic...
...were Democratic squawks from the likes of Bob Kerrey and Carl Levin, wondering why a man so audibly enamored of bipartisanship had been so quick to jerk a chin toward the Gore campaign as an orchestrator of the leak. But if the Republicans protested a little too much (Arlen Specter, we're looking at you and your post-election "hunch"), George W. still has the same slender edge in the national polls, three-quarters of the polled say the DUI is irrelevant, and both Jeb and his interlocutors much preferred to talk about Sunshine State...