Down for the Count Down for the Count
Was it only a few short weeks ago that I turned on the TV in my hotel room to hear conservative commentator Tucker Carlson explain to Don Imus that Gore would win the Floridian c...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt
I’m Counting My Heart Out for You I’m Counting My Heart Out for You
(Lyrics found on a table inside a state building in Miami-Dade County) I'm counting my heart out for you. The votes I am finding are few. We hear the mob right in the h...
Nov 30, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Torture Them’ ‘Torture Them’
Do we want a Vice President who endorses illegal detention and torture of Palestinians? Anthony Cordesman, a national security type frequently deployed as a television pundit, re...
Nov 27, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The Vietnam Peace The Vietnam Peace
The President has gone to Vietnam, A smallish country that we used to bomb But now would like to send our products to. And so our corporations take the view That if the count...
Nov 27, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Accuracy’ vs. ‘Speed’ ‘Accuracy’ vs. ‘Speed’
Click here for Eric Alterman's latest dispatch on Florida.
Nov 27, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman
Counting That Chad Is Just the Texas Way Counting That Chad Is Just the Texas Way
In Texas, vote-counters routinely count a dimpled chad as a vote for the candidate because it clearly establishes the voter's intent. Three weeks ago, that sentence would h...
Nov 23, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
What Crisis? What Crisis?
There's an easy way to take your own pulse, and that of anyone you know, concerning the vertiginous events of the night of November 7. Was the apparent non-outcome really a "...
Nov 16, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
A Day in the Life of the Palm Beach County Recount A Day in the Life of the Palm Beach County Recount
While Bush says counting votes by hand's unfair, Gore gains--a bubbe here, a zayde there.
Nov 16, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Relax, Enjoy the Ride; Democracy Is Doing OK Relax, Enjoy the Ride; Democracy Is Doing OK
When George W. Bush spokesman James A. Baker III termed the fight over the Florida vote recount "a black mark on our democracy," he couldn't have been more wrong. At the time h...
Nov 14, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer