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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...election stays muddled in Florida, could the state legislature fix this...
...Well, the only electoral votes that Gore could open are ones "certified" by the Governor. (This is different from state officials certifying the election.) If the Governor certifies the Bush-Cheney electors and the Gore-Lieberman electors send in a rival ballot, it's ignored. The only exception here is if the Senate and House object to having the Bush-Cheney electoral votes counted. As for Gore, his role under the Constitution and federal statute is pretty much just reading the ballots or breaking a tie in the Senate over the Vice President. But the Senate and House, concurrently...
...state like Florida looked good a few days ago. Now I see a poll that shows us behind. How can that be? I wonder, are we lulling ourselves into a premature sense of false victory and complacency? It is a terrible time, a really awful feeling inside. The national polls show George ahead, and yet state by state, they show him behind. How can that...
Take education. Clinton wanted to be the education President, but he simply did not make the consistent effort or advance the needed strategies and goals that would do something fundamentally about the state of public education in this country. In health care, he tried in 1993, then backed away from it quickly and unduly. It's a failure of moral conviction; a failure of imaginative, creative thinking about what has to be done, tested by moral values...
...time moves on, one thing that will identify the Clinton Administration is the opening of trade to China. It's the biggest economic decision this century. It will literally affect every person in my state of Minnesota, and everyone else in America. He ran into a lot of opposition from within his own party, so it took some courage on the part of the President to step away from his normal party politics. As a result of this decision, you're going to see China be much more capitalistic, and ultimately, better human rights will come out of it also...