On December 12, the Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam decision (asserted as a 7–2 vote) that the Florida Supreme Court's ruling requiring a statewide recount of ballots was unconstitutional on equal protection grounds, and in a 5–4 vote reversed and remanded the case to the Florida Supreme Court for modification prior to the optional "safe harbor" deadline, which the Supreme Court argued that Florida court had said the state intended to meet. Gore called Bush to concede the election, but in the early hours of the following morning it became apparent that the Florida race was much closer than Gore’s staff had originally believed. Just go in there and make the case. Eventually, the Florida Supreme Court decided (4–3) to order a statewide manual recount of the approximately 45,000 undervotes—ballots that machines recorded as not clearly expressing a presidential vote—and accepted some previously uncertified results in both Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, reducing Bush’s lead to a mere 154 votes. GEORGE W. BUSH: It is not only your philosophy and what your position is on issues, but can you get things done. Lieberman, a two-term centrist Democratic Senator, was chosen for being "tough on defense" and foreign policy issues. He better not be or there's going to be a consequence should I be the president. The first presidential debate for the 2016 election took place on September 26, 2016, and set the record as the most-watched debate in American history, with 84 million viewers. Centre College is a private liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky. Governors carry out their management and leadership responsibilities and objectives with the support and assistance of department and agency heads, many of whom they are empowered to appoint.
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A state court decision overruling Gore was reversed by the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered a recount of over 70,000 ballots previously rejected as undervotes by machine counters. Keyes & McCain: "Family conference" on abortion? That was in 2000, when George W. Bush briefly took the lead from Al Gore—only to lose it swiftly, as well as the popular vote in November. [32] On the other side, the Republican Leadership Council ran pro-Nader ads in a few states in an effort to split the liberal vote. The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party. DICK CHENEY: I am a great believer that the physical arrangements are important and the one condition that we had both in 2000 and in 2004 in terms of the negotiations prior to the debate was that I wanted to be seated at a table. However the NBC format did not catch on long term, the media did not follow suit. [33] Nader said his campaign's objective was to pass the 5-percent threshold so his Green Party would be eligible for matching funds in future races.