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To: Lucretius who wrote (36375)	11/10/2000 7:58:31 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 436258

Certainly that is so: but, having won the popular vote, it makes sense for him to be sure of the electoral vote before conceding is all I am saying. If he had lost the popular vote by an equivilent margin, I don't think we would be talking about this..

To: Lucretius who wrote (36375)	11/11/2000 8:31:35 AM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 436258

Luc-- Don't count your chickens. There are quite a few absentee ballots from Israel as well. There are some very unusually demographics at work with the FL vote. By the way, last night on the History Channel I saw a piece on the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy election. They interviewed two people very close to Nixon during the election. One was his senior and military aid. The other's official title was unclear. The upshot was that uncertainty over the vote lasted for almost two weeks with both sides posturing for position and threatening the other. The difference between then and now is that media coverage was much more subdued then. Nixon's concession was not quite the "graceful exit" it has been made out to be. And if you listen to the speech he made that election night it was hardly a "concession" speech, more of a "if trends continue like this we'll just have to wait and see" speech.