That year there were disputes over the presidential returns in South
Carolina, Louisinana, Oregon and Florida.The Editors
While Bush says counting votes by hand’s unfair,
Gore gains–a bubbe here, a zayde there.
There’s an easy way to take your own pulse, and that of anyone you know, concerning the vertiginous events of the night of November 7. Was the apparent non-outcome really a "mess" or a crisis? Or was the pre-existing system a sordid mess and a crisis waiting to happen? If you choose the second explanation, then the meltdown of all the fixers and self-appointed gatekeepers and pseudo-experts, as well as being a source of joy, is also an unparalleled opportunity, an occasion for a long-postponed national seminar on democracy and how to get it.