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Were any of you guys still awake and watching on Election Night 2000 when Alter went on NBC and started almost saying, "Forget the Constitution, forget the Electoral College. If Gore wins the popular vote, then he should become President." Alter was so "out there," that he even had Russert and Brokaw slapping him down. It was astounding. And he wasn't joking.

Were any of you guys still awake and watching on Election Night 2000.......

I was too drunk to remember what time I passed out.

I went to bed thinking Dubya had won.

Yep. I remember that smarmy little yuppie with disbelief on his face just TRYING to find a way to get his guy to win that election night. Here he is a 'senior editor' for Newsweek and he truly did not understand the fact that the so-called national 'popular' vote means nothing, only the separate contests in the 50 State contests and the District of Columbia. Oh, he probably know the technicalities of the Constitution, but you see his guy Gore SHOULD have won...

That election night explains why I and all other viewers can not take such a child seriously, he didn't get his way, but was determined to make the system give him the result he WANTED. Very child-like and as you related Browkow and Russert (his more mature compatriots) put this petulant youngster in his place. When every I see his smirking visage I think back to his tantrum that November night...

Very 'Ivy League'...

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