[PEN-L:4616] Orblando Calling

Michael Hoover hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us
Sat Nov 18 14:11:47 PST 2000


please excuse typos in previous post (good thing I didn't type what appeared in the newspaper)... Michael Hoover


> Judy Woodruff could hardly contain themselves. Voting in Florida,
> the most important of several "battle-ground" states, were about to end.

was about to end


> Competitive, profit-driven "pack journalism" that reared its head again

"pack journalism" reared its head


> Those 25 Florida electoral votes became picenter of the post-election

became the epicenter


> all them Eisenhower-era seniors. They may have been born just before or

Call them


> Roosevelt and the New Deal. FDR-ear seniors likely pride themselves om

FDR-era


> A switch of several thousand votes in a couple of states in 1976 would
> have given Gerald Ford the Electoral College even though he would have
> stil lost the direct vote.

still lost



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