[UA] Your country, it scares me.

[Kevin Mowery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sasha Pixlee" <arsp at calweb.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Your country, it scares me.

> Well, There's not a whole lot else to report other than: "We're waiting
till
> the returns on the Florida recount."
>
> I think even the most avid political-fanboy would get pretty bored of
> hearing that, especially since the deadline to have the recount finished
> isn't even till tommorrow afternoon.

    Actually, as a political fanboy, it's been pretty interesting, if only
because there *are* new things to report.  We've got two former Secretaries
of State going to Florida to oversee the recount, every hour there's a new
revelation about another set of ballots that were so badly designed that
instead of voting for the moderate left-winger, they voted for a
no-chance-in-hell rabid nationalist by accident (turns out this problem was
pretty widespread), and more and more *piles* of missing votes turning up.
The hair's-breadth lead that Bush was enjoying has been whittled down to
about half a hair's breadth by the recount *already* and they're still going
to be counting tomorrow.  Plus there's the chance of a lawsuit being filed
by the Gore camp over those screwy ballots.

    This is history-making in so many ways, and I'm sure some cliomancer is
trying to find out exactly where the ballot will be counted that finally
decides this election.

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