Then, late on December 12th, the justices gave their ruling. First, on December 9th, a mere three days before Florida was due to choose its electoral college votes, it temporarily stopped the recounts, just when Mr. Next, the Democrat-dominated Florida Supreme Court reversed Judge Sauls's decision, allowing the recounts to go ahead, but with no clear standards about which ballots to count (prompting a furious dissent from its own chief justice). Gore had not properly demonstrated that recounts could change the result (an absurd idea, when there were thousands of disputed ballots but Mr. Bush's favour, denying further recounts, but he did so partly on the ground that Mr. The final three courts to intervene all did so in ways that either defied common sense or reeked of partisanship (and sometimes managed both). The manner in which the final result emerged, though, could hardly have been more unfortunate. Can he recover from such a terrible start?Īmerica was always going to greet the final decision with relief rather than joy. Bush steps up to the victor's podium a shadow even of the fortunate figure who first appeared to have sneaked to victory on election night His presidency begins on an accidental, even damaged note. Bush will finally be America's next president. Al Gore's gracious concession, more than a month after the actual election, means that George W. SELDOM has so much power been awarded to one man by such a narrow margin-and with quite so many Supreme Court justices at each other's throats.
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