Beach County
i 1 uple are up in arms here," said Richel, a
i i. i Bala Cynwyd resident. "Their ballots
i\ 'Hectively been made null and void."
'i i .. I'm a Gore supporter," she said. "But
n \ candidate lost in a legitimate election or
a .asn't crucial, I would say "OK.' But if he
iliii win because of an unfair advantage,
n where the outrage comes in. You know,
■ i nuld have made the difference. You can
i i-lcct a president of the United States this
Ik added, "We have a lot of people here
H' are concentration camp survivors. They
Huai the right to democracy."
1 m ter the format used by the county and
opted this year because of the large number
laesidential hopefuls candidates were
it 1 with holes to the right or the left of each
their names.
I he top hole was for Bush, who was listed
ii p left; the second hole was for Buchanan,
i was at top right. A vote for Gore required
iking the third hole, listed under Bush on
1 left.
When ballots are placed in the slide for
ting. A 1 Gore and Joe Lieberman are the
-'oiul names on the ballot, but the third hole
punch,” Florida Democratic Party Commu
nions Director Bill Buck said in a State-
Mi ows meant to link candidates' names to
in respective holes may have only served
hu ther confuse some voters-particularly the
it-rly. who make up large percentage of the
iinty's population.
ight in gold
hots from overseas. Officials in Pinellas
,1 Brevard counties said that 248 and 325
Hots, respectively, had not yet been re
tied. They said they expected a quarter of
mi would come back. Orange County said
nailed more than 1,000 ballots overseas,
.1 about half have been returned.
Robert Riker, assistant election supervisor
Sarasota County, said his county mailed
1440 overseas ballots and most have been
urned. He guessed that about 30 to 35 more
mid be returned by the deadline. Ann Mau,
rnando County superintendent of elections,
d she expected less than two dozen in the
nl Hollam said she expected about 200
-iseas votes.
State results
GOP will likely stay
by Scott Canon
November 08, 2000
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Republicans appeared
poised early today to stay atop Capitol Hill
but without strengthening their position much.
Democrats gained ground in the Senate,
weakening the OOP's majority. And depend
ing on returns from places such as Missouri,
Nebraska, and Montana, they could gain the
slightest of majorities. In the highest-profile
race, Democrats defended a Democratic seat in
New York when first lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton defeated Rep. Rick Lazio.
In the House, more than a $1 billion spent on
435 races led to a small advance for the Repub
licans. The GOP gained seats in Virginia, Penn
sylvania, and New York even as it lost a spot in
Oklahoma. The chances that U.S. Rep. Richard
Gephardt of Missouri would take control of the
speaker’s gavel, contingent on multiple upsets
in Californian, seemed likely lost.
In the Senate, Republicans held a 54-46 edge
heading into the election and were at a disad
vantage because the GOP had 19 seats to pro
tect while Democrats had 14 up for election.
As votes were being counted, Republicans were
on course to win at least 50 seats, Democrats at
least 47.
The House Republicans entered the election
with a 222-209 edge and were expected to lose
at least a few seats because they had more in
cumbents retiring than the Democrats. Instead,
incomplete returns suggested their advantage
would remain slim, but that their numbers might
grow to about 225.
After the election neither side, however, stood
in position to muscle through a broad legisla
tive agenda or sweeping government reforms
when the politicians convene a new Congress
in January.
“If you’re opposed to the status quo and want
to see a ton of legislation working its way
through the Congress, you’re in for a big disap
pointment,” said John Hibbing, a University of
Nebraska professor and author of Congress as
Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward Politi
cal Institutions.
“The numbers are just too close to give ei
ther party the ability to just go ahead and have
its way.”
Virginia’s Sen. Charles Robb lost. The son
in-law of former President Lyndon Johnson was
seemingly more at home in the clubbish atmo
sphere of the Senate than stumping for votes at
home. He fell to George Allen, a multimillion
aire former governor and son of the storied foot
ball coach.
As the Democrats were losing that seat, they
in control of Congress, but not by much
were picking up the Florida seat held by the
retiring Connie Mack. Democratic state Insur
ance Commissioner and former U.S. Rep. Bill
Nelson defeated Republican U.S. Rep. Bill
McCollum, who had been one of the House
managers in the Clinton impeachment.
In Arizona, Rhode Island and Wyoming, Re
publican incumbents held on while Democrats
successfully defended Senate seats in Wiscon
sin, New Mexico and North Dakota.
Democrats took a seat away from Republi
cans when U.S. Rep. Thomas Carper defeated
incumbent William Roth in Delaware in a mi
nor upset. Roth has been in the Senate since
1971 and focused his career on tax policy, en
gineering tax cuts and laws for individual re
tirement accounts.
The minority party won another Senate seat
in Washington, where incumbent Republican
Slade Gorton maybe best known nationally
for his fights with Indian tribes was falling
to former Rep. Maria Cantwell.
In Georgia, Sen. Zell Miller, a Democrat, was
appointed this year to replace the late Republi
can Sen. Paul Coverdell. He was returned to
the seat Tuesday night.
In Michigan, first-term Republican Spencer
Abraham looked to be holding off a strong chal
lenge from U.S. Rep. Debbie Stabenow. In Min
nesota, former state Auditor Mark Dayton un
seated Republican Rod Grams, gaining another
seat for the Democrats.
That was offset when Republican former U.S.
Rep. John Ensign won election to the Senate in
Nevada, defeating attorney Ed Bernstein and
replacing retiring Democrat Richard Bryan.
In New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton moved
from presidential partner to political headliner.
“You came out and said issues and ideals
matter,” Clinton told supporters Tuesday night
after Lazio conceded. “Thank you, New York.
Thank you for opening up your minds and
hearts.”
Her race started out as a clash of titans be
tween her and popular New York Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani. When Giuliani was diag
nosed with cancer, Lazio, years younger and
much more unknown, took the GOP banner.
Clinton, who had stumbled at times in the polls,
was able to beat Lazio and make history.
Missouri had what was easily the most un
usual contest in the country.
Republican Sen. John Ashcroft, at times
among the most conservative members of the
chamber, was locked in the tightest of races with
the late Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan. The
governor, his son, and a longtime aide died in
an Oct. 16 plane crash. Carnahan’s death came
too late to remove his name from the ballot.
Roger Wilson, who rose to the governor’s job.
Electoral Count
BUSH
GORE
- Florida (25) and Oregon (7) still
not determined
has said if Carnahan won he would appoint the
late candidate's widow, Jean Carnahan, to that
seat.
Meantime, Democrats found themselves fac
ing the prospect of winning for losing. Joe
Lieberman ran for, and won Tuesday, election
to the Senate from Connecticut. But his elec
tion to vice president would allow the Republi
can governor of the state to name someone from
the GOP to that seat for a two-year term.
In the House, the Republicans held a 13-seat
advantage in the current Congress. Of the House
seats, political professionals considered less
than 10 percent to be seriously contested. The
results in the rest are virtually fixed district
boundaries that dictate one party or the other is
destined to win well before the first yard sign is
planted.
The remaining minority of House elections
turned on any number of factors, more often
determined by particular match-ups than na
tional issues repeated from coast to coast.
“I don’t think we really had a national con
gressional race,” said Darrell West, a political
science professor at Brown University. “The
national cross-currents were too tricky the
Republicans were afraid of being demonized for
[President Clinton’s] impeachment process, and
the Democrats were never quite sure how strong
a candidate A 1 Gore was going to be.”
Early results showed little turnover in con
tested seats, certainly nothing to suggest
Gephardt was on his way to the speakership.
Republican incumbent James Rogan, a House
manager of Clinton’s impeachment trial, was
holding off a spirited challenge in suburban Los
Angeles. In Georgia, Democrat Roger Kahn
spent $2 million of his own money against Re
publican Bob Barr another prominent player
in the move to oust the president and lost to
the incumbent.
Republicans appeared on the way to picking
up one seat in the Kansas City area. Democratic
former state Sen. Steve Danner appeared to have
lost the seat his mother, Pat Danner, is vacating
to Republican state Sen. Sam Graves. In east
ern Kansas, Democrat Dennis Moore was re
elected to a second term over Republican state
Rep. Phill Kline.
One Democratic political consultant said
House races often are overlooked when atten
tion is focused on the presidential race and vari
ous Senate contests.
“They were much further down on people’s
lists of priorities,” consultant Martin Hamburger
said. “In different times, that would make them
turn on overarching national trends. But you
didn’t see anything coming out of the Congress
or the parties that cut across all these races.”
EBESIRENI
George W. Bush(R)
Ralph Nader(Green)
Pat Buchanan(Reform)
U.S. SENATOR |
Rick Santorum(R) .57>||7
Ron Klink(D)
Mike Fisher(R)
260
Jim Eisenhower(D) 40,106
Katie True(R)
Bob Casey, Jr.(D) 66,089
Barabara Hafer(R) 44,126
Catherine Knoll(D) 58,184
U.S. CONGRESS
21 ST DISTRICT
Phil Engllsh(R)
Marc Flitter(D)
Joseph Calla, Jr.(D) 950
Joseph Scarnati(l) 217
Jane Earll(R)
John Paul Jones(D) 39,198
District 1
Linda Bebko Jones(D) 14,060
District 2
Italo Cappabianca(D) 15,244
Districts
Karl Boyes(R)
District 4
David Mitcheil(R)
Tom Scrlmentl(D) 15,635
District 5
John Evans(R)
Karen Mulkeam(D) 4,922
"State or district winners in bold
Erie County
Breakdown
48,806
230
46,459
60,329
33,556
63,242
44,715
53,392
28,422
8,134
11,926