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Limbo continued from page 1 suspense. “Those of you who have stayed up with us, you have been rewarded with one of the all-time close races,” CBS’ Dan Rather said at one point. On Tuesday night, several ana lysts said their networks were tak ing time declaring states for either candidate, wanting to make sure exit poll results matched up with actual returns. “We’re waiting on a possible de cision in Florida, but you’ve got time to put on another cup of cof fee and pour it,” Rather said before 8 p.m. EST. Ten minutes later, NBC projected Gore the winner in Florida. Other networks followed soon after. But two hours later, video of Bush ap peared on TV screens saying he wasn’t giving up Florida. By 9:55 p.m. EST, CNN had taken back its projection that Gore had won the state. CBS quickly followed, then NBC. “This night got even more com plicated and tricky,” CNN’s Jeff Greenfield said. An early sign of a tight race W ''4IK1 came during the network evening news. Anchors usually can be counted on to drop subtle hints from exit poll results about how the night will unfold, but few were forthcoming. Rather convened a panel of po litical experts and asked them to pick a winner at about 6:40 p.m. EST. Linda DiVall picked Bush, Harrison Hickman guessed Gore and Norm Ornstein took a pass. “I honestly don’t know,” he said. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the former political operative for President Clinton, predicted legal challenges to vote counts would be brought in several states if the race stayed close. Peter Jennings anchored ABC’s coverage from a midtown Manhat tan studio, alternating between the lights of Times Square blinking be hind him and the lights from an electoral map. On NBC, analyst Russert used a laser pointer to pick out states on a red, white and blue map. Later, Russert discarded the pointer to scribble voting projections in pen on a white tablet. CNN and Fox News Channel used a graphic borrowed from sporting events, displaying an electoral vote count as a scorecard on the corners of their screen. MSNBC — the cable network started by Microsoft — was dis armingly low-tech: A production assistant, Kara Kaplan, filled in states on a map like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Even as they faced the prospect of a sleepless night, political re porters were almost gleeful. “This is Christmas Eve for us po litical junkies,” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said before any polls closed. “It certainly beats the Os cars. It beats the World Series.” Dan Brunell Emerald A Green Party sign supporting Ralph Nader and Winona LaOuke is hoisted at the Lane County Fairgrounds on election night. Nader earned three percent of the popular vote. Nader continued from page 1 and his supporters assert that many of Nader’s voters wouldn’t have vot ed at all if they couldn’t vote for Nader and that only Gore was to blame should he lose the election. While the election teetered over the final undecided states, Nader lambasted the Democratic Party for being corrupt and ineffectual and told about 100 of his backers who remained at the National Press Club that their support of the Green Party was well-placed, though the party didn’t gain enough votes to secure federal campaign funding. “How many years are we going to be betrayed by a Democratic Party with an atrocious record,” Nader said. “[Green Party support ers] can say: ‘Don’t blame us, we voted for Nader/LaDuke.’” Winona LaDuke was Nader’s running mate. Nader said that this election was a victory for the Green Party’s cause. It jettisoned the Green Party into becoming the nation’s biggest third party and shook up the De mocrats, he said. “There are a lot of people in the Democratic Party who are squirm ing,” he said. “If we make them squirm enough and sweat enough, maybe we could make them a little more honest ... a little more like the party they were decades ago, the party of the working people.” Earlier in the evening, about 300 Nader supporters listened to Nad er rail against Republicans and De mocrats saying the parties had “morphed into one corporate body with two heads.” “If you vote for the least of the worst and the lesser of two evils ... at the end of the day you’re still stuck with the worst and the evil,” he said. Though a president opposed to much of Nader’s platform may well be elected, many of the Green Party supporters at Tuesday night’s rally in Washington, D.C., said they would still vote for Nader and not for Gore, given the chance. Nonetheless, a pall seemed to fall over the jovial rally when the race came down to the wire. Greg Kafoury, the Portland lawyer who organized Nader’s Aug. 25 rally in Portland, said he didn’t regret supporting the cam paign and voting for Nader” He’s the kind of man who comes a long once in a century,” Kafoury said, adding that he left his law practice for three months to support Nader. “Young people, particularly the smartest and most active, have re ceived a baptism in progressive ac tivism,” he said. “They’ve come to appreciate the corruption of major parties. They’ll become better peo ple and do more for the world than they would if Ralph Nader never ran for president.” Reflecting the vehemence of many Nader supporters, Chris Andino, a sophomore at the Uni versity of Virginia and Nader cam paign volunteer, said he would have never voted for Gore. “If it was Bush, Gore and Jell-0 mold running, I would vote for Jell-0 mold,” he said. “I wouldn’t vote for a person I don’t believe in. 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Expires 11/10/00 Pictures tor illustration purposes only r 1 I N T m H I T welcome to Internet2 Days at the University of Oregon Learn more about high-performance networking in Oregon! The UO is pleased to invite you to participate in a special two-day conference on Internet2, the high-speed academic and research network connecting over 180 U.S. universities. In partnership with industry and government, Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies to accelerate the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Find out how Internet2 partnerships benefit higher education and research both locally and internationally. When? Monday, November 13th & Tuesday, November 14th Where? Monday: EMU FIR ROOM Tuesday: EMU GUMWOOD ROOM Noon - 5:30 pm 8 am - 5:30 pm Who? Presenters include distinguished academic and network professionals from from the UO, OSU, OHSU, PSU, the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, and key Internet staff members. What? Topics range from what Internet means for Oregon and how to make the most of regional opportunities for funding, to international collaboration and research. Other highlights include a session on real-time video applications, Internet applications for the geosciences and environmental observation and forecasting systems. Conference Schedule: http://i2days.uoregon.edu/
