Word: states
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...track as his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first successful run for public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought was boring suddenly became all too interesting. The election ran aground in Florida, its outcome simply too close to call, a digital-photo-finish that defeated the state's analog voting equipment (and meanwhile added a 1950s term, punch-card "chad," to our lexicon). The cable-TV pundits made their dependable racket and protesters filled the South Florida streets, but as the votes were recounted and Gore contested Bush's apparent victory, the public remained admirably patient--content...
...paid. It was clear very early that the race was close, but when Florida was called for Gore shortly before 8 p.m., despondency fell over the Bush clan. With tears in his eyes, brother Jeb, Florida's Governor, apologized to George W. for letting him down. Other battleground states--Michigan, Pennsylvania--were put into the Gore column as well, and the outlook went from gray to black. But there was something curious here: Bush's people were getting numbers from Florida that showed their candidate slightly ahead, not behind, and finally Bush went on network television from the Governor...
...April 25 the Green Mountain State's legislators passed a bill allowing same-sex couples to enter into "civil unions." Everyone involved knew there was a fire storm of protest coming; even some supporters of the bill took pains to insist that the state had not become the first in the land to license gay marriage. But it sure looked that way as civil-union partners were guaranteed a laundry list of rights--in areas of child custody, family leave, inheritance, insurance--traditionally reserved for the traditionally wed. "This is really very emotional," said gay-rights advocate Paula Ettelbrick after...
...thrashed" and "Uh-oh" were prominent among them. When she announced her candidacy, the term carpetbagger was immediately hurled. But New York likes its carpetbaggers--people seemed to forget that Robert F. Kennedy and James Buckley not only ran for Senate from the Empire State but won--and New York likes high-wattage celebrities a lot. Hillary was an immediate hit in the city and environs, and when she worked hard Upstate, she became something of a hit there too. Her presumptive opponent was New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, but a diagnosis of prostate cancer, coming in the same...
...astonishment, an election went against him. On Sept. 24 Vojislav Kostunica, head of the center-right Democratic Party of Serbia, who had the support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic. At Milosevic's strong urging, a runoff was called. The opposition cried fraud, saying Kostunica had won nearly 55% of the vote. On Sept. 25 Kostunica (inset) declared victory. Protest rallies were staged. The commission was resolute until a week...