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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: U Up U Down who wrote (93962)	11/29/2000 1:45:23 PM
From: U Up U Down	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Nation needs Gore to concede election Wednesday, November 29, 2000 By any objective standard, the likelihood of Vice President Al Gore being the next president of the United States dropped in the past few days, with the ending of recounts and the certification of the Florida results. Meanwhile, the legal hurdles facing the Gore campaign have gotten far higher. Both the machine recount and the manual recount as accepted by Florida law have shown a razor-thin win for Gov. George W. Bush. The Gore campaign now must hope that a court will order the ballot-counting process reopened and that that ruling would be upheld by higher courts. That's a very slender prospect. The Gore lawyers seem to have placed their strongest hopes on reversing the decision of the canvassing board in Miami-Dade County to not offer any hand recounts, since the board thought it could not do a good job and meet its deadline. While the Democrats may not like this decision, and may even think that the decision will cost them the election, they should abide by it. It's a call made by a local governing board, the type of panels that oversee elections across the country. National campaigns with a team of lawyers should not be able to overturn those local panels with legal pressure. The courts are going to be rightly reluctant to overturn that group's decision. It's unfortunate that the Gore lawyers have no such scruples. web.philly.com