Everybody ought to just simmer down over the apparently interminable presidential election. And Florida law permits losing candidates to contest an election certification, which Gore has done.
Average citizens seem to have the situation in the right perspective.
We still have dial tones, the garbage is getting picked up and no one has been killed in the streets. For the Mid-Columbia's sake, we still hope for a Bush presidency. But for that presidency to be successful, Bush needs to be the clear victor - without shadows of doubt. There's talk that the GOP-controlled Legislature might convene in special session to declare the electors, regardless of what happens with the vote count. Such clearly partisan maneuvering would only cast more doubt.