that makes two of us!
that makes two of us!
LOL. You've just reminded me why I swore in 2000 that I'd never do another all-nighter. I had volunteered for one of the RNC "jump teams," which were merry bands of volunteers sent out to hotspots around the country. I got sent to Philly. No one had any illusions about Philly, but the campaign thought if the democrat margin in Philly could be held under 400,000, Bush had a chance to win the state. It didn't work, but that was the plan.
So at this hour 20 years ago, we had just lost Pennsylvania and Florida had been called for Gore and all was lost. At 8:30 I was taking a walk around downtown Philly contemplating the disaster. It was a loooooong drive back to DC. By the time I got home, Karl Rove was on tv arguing about Florida, and lo and behold, the networks retracted their call. Then things got interesting.
Some of y'all were still hanging on FR when the race was called for Bush around 5-6:00 a.m. I remember calling it a "landslide" and got cleaned up to go to work. I swore I'd never do that again.