That's because kausfiles will read it for you, and tell you all you need to know. Thanks to advanced Series-Skipper TM technology, even intriguing, buried statistics, or small backbiting remarks by presidential aides, will be captured and presented, in compressed, readable fashion, for rapid downloading. Both carried PR risks. Or Gore could have challenged the count in a few counties, and then when Bush accused him of cherry-picking, immediately called Bush's bluff by requesting the statewide count. In the end, the public proved much more tolerant of a prolonged recount than the Post gives it credit for.
Nobody cuts corners, or cheats, or lies, or is otherwise an asshole.
Nobody described in the story will read this series and get mad at the Post . That especially goes for Klain, who must be a great source because he's portrayed as a hero despite seemingly having made a number of whopping blunders. In the initial post-election hours, Jeb Bush's lawyer, Frank Jimenez, quietly locked up many of the state's top law firms to keep them from representing Gore. But she makes the mistake of sending it Express Mail. The Bushies actually go to the post office and get the U.S. Postal Service to pull the package.