-
November 30, 2000
-
November 30, 2000
Yes, We’re the Great Pretenders
Three days before the election, I took part in a television panel with former White House flack Joe Lockhart, who was doing his best to hold up his end of the tattered Gore-Lieberman banner. When the show was over, I asked him what he really thought and he said, "I'm pinning everything on the Electoral College." It now takes an effort of memory to recall, but this was what all the Democratic elite were saying that week. So the sudden moral emphasis on the popular vote is slightly unseemly, especially in view of the fact that the vote hasn't been counted yet.
Christopher Hitchens
-
November 30, 2000
-
November 30, 2000
I’m Counting My Heart Out for You
(Lyrics found on a table inside a state building
in Miami-Dade County)I'm counting my heart out for you.
The votes I am finding are few.
We hear the mob right in the hallway heat up,
They're talking of the chads that we might eat up.
I hope this ends before we all get beat up.
I'm looking for voters for you--
Some blacks or a wandering Jew.
There aren't enough new hanging chads to suit me.
I hope the Cubans don't show up to shoot me.
There doesn't seem much I can do,
Still, I'm counting my heart out for you.Calvin Trillin
-
November 27, 2000
-
GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!
-
November 27, 2000
-
November 23, 2000
-
November 22, 2000
Election 1876
That year there were disputes over the presidential returns in South Carolina, Louisinana, Oregon and Florida.
The Editors
-
November 16, 2000
A Day in the Life of the Palm Beach County Recount
While Bush says counting votes by hand's unfair,
Gore gains--a bubbe here, a zayde there.Calvin Trillin
-
November 16, 2000