Word: wrongly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...there is no pressing reason to decide the presidency, and it would be wrong to come to a conclusion on a matter of such great importance for reasons of expediency. Instead, Bush should agree to allow the judicial system to exercise its proper control over the election process in Florida. In this manner, the election can be decided in a fair, legal way that hopefully will most closely represent the will of the people...
...also on Wednesday that Jesse Jackson flew to Miami from Gore's campaign headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. Jackson was quick to insist that the issue was "not about black and white, it's about wrong and right," but his presence helped point up another angle to the Democratic challenge: complaints of what some black voters believed were subtle forms of racial intimidation, such as the police roadblock that was set up on voting day about a mile from a minority-neighborhood polling place in rural Wakulla County...
...determine is whether the confusing Palm Beach ballot was illegal in the first place. Democrats contend that it violates a provision of state election law that requires each candidate's name to appear to the left of the corresponding punch hole. Republicans say the Democrats are reading the wrong section of Florida law. Though the Palm Beach ballots are cardboard, the cards are read by machines, and the law, they say, allows the names of candidates on "mechanical" ballots to be placed on either side of the hole...
...Then the Gore campaign came on. And I am saying to myself, ?Look at that kiss. Isn't that going to turn people off? And listen to his program - money for everything, the old-style New Deal.' Three days later, I find out I was wrong...
...calls were desperate because the steam was coming out of the Bush effort out West. In California, the Florida call hit just at the wrong moment: drive time. Voters and volunteers have to be wooed on their way to work or coming home. Once they get home, it's a lot harder to get them out of their comfy chairs into dark cafeterias and libraries to vote. After Florida was called, Bush volunteers just started going home or not showing...