The Dems real base. For Democrats, that means mainly minorities and union members. And they too are turning out in droves. The Gore campaign's first significant action once the election went into overtime was the launch of a kind of Mariel boat-lift of sharks in pinstriped suits to Florida. The intent from the start has been to sue Gore's way to victory.
Every day brings another rush into the courtroom.
Trial lawyers are important to the Democrats partly as a matter of finances. But trial lawyers are in sympathy with the Democrats on a much deeper level. All over the country, trial lawyers and activist judges are locked into an embrace cemented by their mutual contempt for democratic self-government and their desire to aggrandize their own power at its expense. Then, if her decision to certify Bush's victory seems illegitimate, the Democrats can challenge it in Congress. Again, if Tom DeLay is seen as somehow unfairly delivering the presidency to George W. Bush, congressional Republicans will pay a dear political price for it two years hence.