News flashes/comments/thoughs: 0. Should no President be named by the 20th January, the Hon. Dennis Hastert will have his try at the Chief Executive position. It is of course in Gore's self-interest to see a legal battle over by that time, lest Hastert and the GOP Congress ensure certain bills, resolutions, etc. are passed. 1. Gore wins Oregon by ~7,000. Outside of the range of automatic recount but within the range of GOP lawsuits. 2. New Mexico is again undecided as thousands of ballots switch. Some reports even have Bush ahead by ~100 votes. 3. GOP to challenge results OR, NM, IA, WI. 4. Perhaps the reason Italians can consider themselves experts at elections is because they hold so many of them. 5. Putin gets elected with a bare majority. Sure, those were fair and clean ... 6. More candidates lead to more confusion. Simple as that. Russian elections quite frequently only have 2-3 candidates. 7. When was the last time China held an election where the winner was not pre-approved by Beijing? 8. So much whingeing about the slowness of this process. Would you rather have this done hastily? The election was close, folks. It will take time to determine the winner. 9. Most of these shenanigans have been going on for decades, folks. Where were we earlier? Oh yeah, no one cared b/c the elections were not close. 10. Jeb Bush has withdrawn himself from the process. The Gore campaign chair in Florida is going to certify the results. sssuuuurrreeee. Someone's leaving themselves WIDE OPEN for a lawsuit, folks, which will at the least delays things another week or two. 11. If Jeb wanted to fix FL for Bush, wouldn't he have done it by a bit wider margin, folks? 12. Look for some sort of GOP action to be raised about the networks declaring Gore the winner in FL *BEFORE THE POLLS CLOSED IN A HEAVILY REPUBLICAN PART OF THE STATE*. i.e. remember the FL panhandle is in the Central time zone. 13. If you think the laughing is loud now, just wait until they hold a FL-only or a PBC-only revote. 14. The anti-revote demonstrations in Palm Beach were a significant fraction of the size of the pro-revote demonstrations. One of my co-workers said they were the same size. Yet up here in DC I have heard no mention of those save in the Washington Times. Nathan, can you provide more info on the anti-revote movement down there? 15. Are there any Republicans in Palm Beach County?? I haven't seen any on TV. 16. Buchanan has a relative in Palm Beach County. He received 8K votes from that county in an essentially meaningless GOP primary in 1996. He raised 5% of his funds for this election from that county (and try to tell me that was a mistake ;). 16a. The true percentage of Buchanan votes that were mistaken Gore voters is unknown. If we want to try and factor that in, let's factor in the hundreds or thousands of likely GOP voters in the Panhandle who decided to not vote when it was announced Gore had won. 16b. Can anyone out on the West Coast tell us what happens when one candidate is declared the winner or is surging ahead by say 5:30 or so Pacific time (8:30 Eastern) Do people just stop showing up? Do people leave lines? I wouldn't know, but I imagine behaviours in the Panhandle were similar. --regards, shawn
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