What a nightmare this is turning into.
And by the looks of it, it won't be over for a while...
On strategy, posturing and the chad.
The election of the next president moved farther Saturday from the hands of voters and closer to the hands of political strategists, lawyers and judges.
chicagotribune.com
Mystery ballots break pattern.
More votes tallied for senator than president
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Or... We could sidestep the legal mess, with more... legal mess...
Electoral College may not need Florida electors to choose president
-- On December 18, electors from all 50 states are scheduled to pick the president. An 1887 law fixes this as the date for electors to cast their ballots, constitutional law scholars said Friday.
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The consequences ... Laughing stock again ? (remember Monica)
Unofficially, the Russian Web site www.anekdot.ru joked that Veshnyakov had flown to the U.S. to help straighten the electoral mess. "Latest reports show [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in the lead, over Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore," the Web site said.
or....
In Italy, the perennial butt of jokes for its chaotic political system and its 58 governments in the postwar period, the daily newspaper La Repubblica ran this headline about the U.S. vote: "A Day as a Banana Republic."
"The first election of the new millennium has brought America into the realm of the surreal," the newspaper said.
How about...
In Africa, some felt a perverse sense of vindication. "If this had happened in Nigeria or anywhere else in Africa, the whole world would be pointing fingers at us," said Fortune Akabuka, a cabdriver in Lagos, Nigeria.
The absurd...
One Mexico City newspaper speculated that Mexican-style fraud, orchestrated perhaps by Gov. Jeb Bush, could be behind Florida's fuzzy electoral math. In Havana, Cuba's state-controlled media blasted Miami's Cuban-American community for any role it might have played in the fracas—and offered to send "impartial observers" to help audit the recount.
Of course the French could not miss saying...
An editorial in France's Le Figaro offered a backhanded compliment to American democracy.
And my favorite....
"In the craziest of its scenarios, Hollywood would never have dared imagine a similar suspense," the newspaper said. "But rather than put the United States in the lineup of banana republics, this impossibility proclaiming George Bush or Al Gore the winner can seem a sort of perverse homage to democracy … In America, the glory of democracy is its uncertainty."
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