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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

For each story, column, article or editorial we deem significant, we post at least the headline and link to the piece; the linked headline always appears in quotes. We quote the headline for two reasons: first, to allow researchers looking for the cited piece to find it (if the link has expired) by searching for the original title/headline via a commercial research service. Second, quotation of the original headline permits readers to appreciate the spin from the original piece, as opposed to our spin.

Not that we don't provide spin; we do, and plenty of it. Our perspective appears in post headlines, the subtitles within the post (in bold), and the excerpts from the linked stories we select to quote; we also occasionally provide other links and commentary about certain stories. While our bias should be immediately apparent to any reader, we nevertheless attempt to link to every article, column or editorial about Florida politics in every major online Florida newspaper.

 

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The Blog for Friday, December 24, 2004

Wouldn't It Have Been Nice . . .

    If Florida in 2000 had done it this way:
    The race for governor of Washington is even closer than the race for president in Florida was four years ago. But this time, it seems that voters will decide it.

    Between Election Day and Nov. 30, the margin and outcome went from 7,000 votes with Democrat Christine Gregoire winning to 42 votes and Republican Dino Rossi winning. As of Friday, after a statewide hand recount, Ms. Gregoire was back up by 130 votes.

    That final recount included nearly 750 absentee ballots that had been overlooked in King County, which is the state's largest and is strongly Democratic. On Wednesday, Republicans were before the Washington Supreme Court, arguing against counting the ballots — not because they may have been fraudulent but because a recount should include only those ballots counted the first time.

    Unlike the Supreme Court in Bush vs. Gore, however, the Washington high court quickly ruled that if a ballot was determined to be legal, it should be counted. And where Katherine Harris stood up for her party, not the voters, the Republican who runs Washington's elections had urged counties to find and count every valid ballot.
    "Avoid Florida 2000 finish". What a wild and crazy idea - count every legal vote.

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