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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
I believe in Ralph Nader.”
Still, a handful of Nader sup
porters at the rally who lived in
states solidly favoring either Gore
or Bush said they would have re
considered their votes if they lived
in contested states.
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