JDG wrote:
> George W. Bush has been proclaimed the winner at 2:21 am EST. After
> initially predicting that Florida would vote for Gore, after 97% of the
> precincts were counted, Bush was ahead, giving him one more electoral vote
> than he needed to become President.
>
> Wow.
It was pins and needles for me - I literally wasn't sure how the race would
end until the last 30-40 minutes. While I'm not terribly pleased that Bush
won, he in no way claimed a mandate, which, combined with the Senate and
House results I saw, will make it hard for him to enact anything truly
horrid.
The last figures I saw indicated that, like Perot in '92, Nader served as a
spoiler, taking key votes away from Gore in several states. Guess that's
payback for the '92 election, eh?
Anyone got figures for voter turnout this election? I saw estimates of
about 61% early on - surprising, considering how apathetic we were told we
were for so much of the election.
Adam Lipscomb
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