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Check in at www.dailyemerald.com for all the latest election results. An independent newspaper Wait until next year 4 The Oregon soccer team never found solid ground against top teams, but 2001 looks strong PAGE 8 Oregon makes history The nation’s first all mail-in ballot and remarkably high turnout turns all eyes to the West PAGE 7 Wednesday November 8,2000 Volume 102, Issue 51 Weather today RAIN LIKELY high 50, low 31 Race thrown into limbo Tom Patterson Emerald Brendan Kaswell makes his support for a ticket obvious. By David Bauder Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — It was the ultimate in reality television for grateful net works Tuesday: a presidential elec tion with the final survivor a true mys tery as the night wore on. After a nail-biting night, shortly after 2:15 a.m. EST, the TV networks de clared George W. Bush the winner over Al Gore in Florida — and thus the na tion. But that didn’t end the drama. By 3:30 a.m. EST, NBC’s Tom Brokaw continued to wonder aloud if Florida was a lock for Bush. Only several hun dred votes separated the two men, he noted, with 30,000 uncounted absen tee ballots. “That would be something if the networks managed to blow it twice in one night,” he said. Before too long, CNN started to waver, too — especial ly after neither candidate appeared in public as expected. Brokaw’s rueful remark referred to the networks predicting earlier in the evening that Gore would win Florida. Two hours later, they took that predic tion back, saying the race was too close too call. It made for gripping television. The networks spent millions of dollars on polls and vote-gathering efforts in an attempt to find out the results as quickly as possible. Instead, they got something better — old-fashioned Turn to Limbo, page 5 Nader to supporters: ‘You did the right thing’ By Darren Freeman Oregon Daily Emerald WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader told his supporters in an eleventh-hour speech Tuesday evening that they did the right thing by “voting their conscience” and supporting the third party. Since Nader began campaigning, Democrats have been warning liberals that votes for Nader would benefit Bush by taking support away from Vice President A1 Gore. But it is debatable whether Nader’s supporters would have voted for Gore had Nader not been on the ballot. Gore supporters said that Nader voters are liberal and would therefore have voted for Gore. On the other hand, Nader Turn to Nader, page 5 Jon House for the Emerald Bush supporter Joan Chipman attends Election Central 2000. Democrats carry day in Lane Co. ■The run-off for the District 41 seat was arduous By Lindsey Bucheie and Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald The race between former Eugene Mayor Jeff Miller and in cumbent Vicki Walker, D-Eugene, for the District 41 seat was too close to call as of press time, but other local and state De mocrats made a clean sweep of their contests Tuesday. At 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, the last update before deadline, Miller was leading Walker with 50.7 percent of the vote. With 64.8 percent of the vote counted, Miller led by only 329 votes. The predominantly Democratic crowd at the Lane County Fairgrounds watched its local hero slowly gain ground against Miller throughout the night. Until 10 p.m., Miller held 52 percent of the vote, with 44 percent of the precincts report ing. But Walker remained optimistic as election officials re leased early results and assured her supporters at the fair grounds, “You watch, they’ll change.” Miller left the fairgrounds about 11 p.m. and couldn’t be reached for comment before deadline. The other local Democrats had an easier time in their con tests, crushing their Republican opponents by large margins even though all the votes haven’t been counted. Democrat Phil Barnhart won decidedly against Republi can Dr. Bill Young and Socialist Karl Sorg. Barnhart, who said he felt confident about his race from the start Tuesday, was more concerned about the number of Tu rn to Candidates, page 4 Dan Brunell Emerald Early Wednesday morning, networks rescinded their earlier projection giving the state of Florida to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. uium m m Many measures tightly contested ■ Oregon has a host of inflammatory issues; future of state funding remains up in the air By Rebecca Newell and Beata Mostafavi Oregon Daily Emerald With a presidential election indeterminately close, Oregon’s ballot measures are following suit with a string of narrowly failing, too-close-to-predict measures. With almost 1,300 of Oregon’s 2,195 precincts counted, final results have yet to be decided. With a multitude of controversial measures on the ballot, Oregonians held their breaths as they awaited the results, which may have drastic consequences on Oregon’s future. A mob of anxious individuals pushed and shoved Tuesday night at the Lane County Fairgrounds to get a glimpse of the updated election summary sheet put out by Lane County Elec tions or to get a spot in front of the big-screen televisions broad casting the changing results. Tax Measures STATE MEASURE #8 Measure 8—which would reduce state government spend ing by an estimated $5.7 billion for the 2001-2003 biennium — is failing by a 10 percent difference at press time. Opponents of the measure had said the cut would drasti cally affect services including education, health care, pub lic safety, services to seniors and disabled people and pro Turn to Measures, page 4
