And it's down to legal actions in the State itself. Tonight postal ballots and Gore's determination to call in the judges. Bush's team rejects the courts and says that bar the postal votes they've won. Al Gore arrived back in Washington late last night. This morning, away from the heat of Florida, cooler senior Democrat heads were urging him to step back from legal challenges to the vote.
Nobody is sure precisely how many overseas Florida voters there are.
Set against Bush's Florida lead of 327 these votes could matter. Many including all the military have been counted. Already the military unit supervising the Presidential inauguration here at the capitol is being delayed by not knowing who's to be inaugurated. Last night former Presidents and their wives attended the two-hundredth birthday for the White House. Other than the abnormal Ford presidency, each enjoyed a definite mandate in their term.