Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...extremis what he could not do during his campaign: rally his party, enlist all the ghosts of campaigns past and get them to play together. But if he was tactically shrewd to offer to meet with Bush, drop all the lawsuits and recount ballots across the whole state, not just in heavily Democratic counties, he couldn't resist taking the truth out for a spin. "What is at stake here is more important than who wins the presidency," he said, and talked about that special something we all cherish and pledge allegiance to. "That's what I'm focused...
...generals in Al Gore's army were coming to grips with the idea of losing the war. A ruling by a Florida judge last Friday morning had cleared the way for Katherine Harris, the George W. Bush ally who is also Florida's secretary of state, to announce a final statewide vote tally on Saturday--one that ignored hand recounts in three Democratic counties. The decision left the men who were leading the charge for Gore--campaign chairman Bill Daley and former Secretary of State Warren Christopher--staring into the abyss. Without the hand-counted votes, Harris would surely declare...
Gore was like a death-row inmate walking the long green mile--and getting a temporary stay of execution right outside the death chamber. It was almost poetic that the reprieve came from the seven state supreme-court justices, six of them Democrats, who have been wrangling with Governor Jeb Bush this year--over capital punishment. Within two hours of the court's decision, the Vice President got more good news. The canvassing board in Miami-Dade County decided to begin a hand recount of its 654,000 votes. And a federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected Bush's plea...
...Friday might be seen as the great turning point in this ferocious battle--or as a final glimmer of false hope for Gore. As former Secretary of State James Baker, Bush's Florida mastermind, was quick to point out, the state court's action was "not an order on the merits." It merely preserved the status quo until Monday's hearing. What the court ruling did not do, however, was freeze the action on the ground. Friday night, as the overseas absentee ballots were counted, Bush and Gore forces locked into another round of frenzied warfare--claims of recount fraud...
...candidates' talk about core principles--Gore's duty "to respect every voter and every vote," Bush's fealty to "the laws of the State of Florida"--it was clear from the start that both sides would say or do whatever it took to win. Bush's team was right when it said Gore wanted to count and count until he got the result he wants--but Gore firmly believes he won Florida (and thus the presidency). And the Vice President's camp was right when it said Bush was trying to short-circuit the recount and hang...