Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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George W. Bush planned no victory party and Al Gore planned no concession; both merely packed the Tallahassee streets with protesters and waited. And when the 5 p.m. deadline had been history for two-and-a-half hours, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris walked into the camera-filled Florida State Cabinet Room and certified George W. Bush as the winner of Florida by 537 votes...
...long and turbulent "contest" phase ahead. "From the beginning of this extraordinary period, Vice President Gore and I have asked only that the votes that were cast on Election Day be counted," he said in his warm-up for Gore's Monday morning address, calling the Secretary of State's count "incomplete and inaccurate." James Baker answered moments later by saying: "At some point, the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home. We have reached that point...
...large chunks of the acceptance speech he didn't get to give on election night - common ground on education and Social Security, dreams of bipartisanship in the next Congress, praise for the size of the American heart. "Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes needed to win the presidency," Bush said. The transition from Austin to Washington will begin, Bush said, in the care of Dick Cheney. Bush had finally given his victory speech...
...Bush's team had irony-watchers cackling when they took a state Supreme Court to federal courts for a scolding, but all they really wanted was to keep their victory in the hands of Florida's elected officials. And the convenient fact that those officials are staunchly Republican shouldn't deter the Supreme Court from doing its job: helping a confused country find the bottom line...
...could go either way. A court obsessed with states' rights might find it quite natural to defend the right of the Florida legislature to write and enforce a body of election law that is, shall we say, eminently disputable. After all, there's nothing unconstitutional about confusing legislation. (Suggestion for the next state congress: Leave the deadlines in place, but make the hand counts more manageable by confining them to ballots not read by the machines. And if that doesn't work, buy new machines.) Then again, the high court might side with Gore's insistence that a state Supreme...