ELECTION 2000

Maybe we are crazy for counting and recounting the votes. Maybe we are crazy for bringing half of the country's attorneys to Florida to argue some cases known to have a great effect on the U.S. presidency.

Thank God we are crazy. This may be politics at its worst, but it is democracy at its best, because the courtroom is certainly a far better place than the street to determine an outcome of any disagreement, not to mention the enormous revenue generated to hotel, restaurant and cellular phone businesses by the event in Tallahassee, Fla.

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