Who Are They?
Al Gore and Reorge W.Bush bothe continue political traditions set down by their families.
Al Gore was born just outside Carthage in Smith County, Tennessee, but split his time growing up between there and Washington, DC where 6）his father was a Senator. Gore attended Harvard and later 7）Vanderbilt where he studied Religion, then Law. After finishing school he enrolled in the Army and served in Vietnam, even though his father was one of the Vietnam War's harshest critics. Gore was elected to Congress in 1976 at the age of 28. In 1992, he was named Bill Clinton's running mate. This August he became the Democratic Party's candidate for President.
George W. grew up in West Texas in a town called Midland, the eldest of 6 children of George and Barbara Bush. George W. Bush's grandfather 8）Prescott Bush was a Senator in Connecticut. Then his father George Bush Sr. made it all the way to President in 1988. George W. studied at Yale, then Harvard before serving with the 9）Air National Guard in Texas, a move that helped him avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. In 1988 George W. Bush served as an advisor for his fathers successful presidential bid.
Bush: My plan balances the budget. It funds needed priorities including defense and education. It reduces the 10）national debt……
Gore: ……and I'll devote the largest share of our 11）surplus to 12）paying down the national debt every year until it is completely eliminated by the year 2012.
Bush: There's $2.3 trillion of surplus that we can use to make sure that younger workers have a 13）Social Security plan in the future.
Gore: Here's my plan. I will keep Social Security in a 14）locked box……
When it comes to technology issues, Bush and Gore both favor a 15）tax credit for company research and development. Both favor e-Government that is using the web to make government more accessible to everyone, and both want Internet user privacy protected. The differences are minor.
Gore（in St. Louis, MO）: You have the decision right here in the 16）Show Me State. You have the ability to show him what you want in the way of America's future. I want you to use your head to persuade the undecided voters. Tell them how strongly you feel about this.
Gore（in Michigan）: Gore-Lieberman win! Michigan wins! 17）UAW wins! The people win! God bless you! Let's do it tomorrow……
It was an upbeat George W. Bush who returned home to Austin at the end of a 18）grueling campaign.
Bush: You're looking at the next President of the United States.
Bush had earlier swung through Iowa, Wisconsin, and Tennessee, Al Gore's home state.
Bush（in Tennessee）: He may win Washington, DC, but he's not going to win Tennessee……
It's Just the Beginning
Good Evening. Voting has begun along the U.S. East Coast in the tightest presidential election for decades. 19）The first results came from two tiny hamlets in New Hampshire. In Dixville Notch, Texas Governor George W. Bush got 21 votes to Vice Presidents Al Gore's 5 and 1 for the 20）Green Party's 21）Ralph Nader. In Hart's Location, it was Bush 17, Gore 13 and Nader 1. Nationwide the race remains too close to call, but some late opinion polls are showing a swing towards Al Gore. It's equally tight in the race for the 22）all-important Electoral College votes, decided according to the winner in each state. 270 votes are needed for the presidency.
And MTV Chose or Lose Poll found that 25% of young adults between the ages of 18 to 24 cannot name the presidential candidates without prompting. And 70% can't identify the vice presidential candidates
Interviewer: Who are the 2 vice presidential candidates?
Interviewee 1: Lieberman and I don't know who the other one is.
Interviewee 2: McCain and …… God, what's the……
Interviewee 3: Lieberman for Gore and Cheney for Bush.
Interviewer: You're great with that.
Interviewee 3: All right !
Tom Brokow of NBC NEWS: An important win for Vice President Al Gore, NBC News projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of Florida ……
Peter Jennings of ABC News: We are now able to make a projection in the state of Florida. Al Gore wins the state of Florida ……
Tom Brokow of NBC NEWS: NBC News is now taking Florida out of Vice President Gore's column ……
Peter Jennings of ABC News: ABC News is now going to project that Florida goes to Mr. Bush.
Bush Campaign Chairman: George Bush, governor of Texas, will become the 43 president of the United States.
In Nashville, there is now 23）unanimity among his aids: he has lost. Gore calls Bush. He offers congratulations, and heads to the War Memorial to publicly 24）concede. Now, a night of high drama becomes positively 25）excruciating. Again, there is unanimity. This time that the race is not over.
Dan Rather of CBS: Bulletin: A senior Gore aid confirms, Gore withdraws concession.
Gore calls Bush for a second time. Bush is 26）incredulous, disbelieving. He tells Gore, "do what you have to do". Gore at some point tells Bush, he doesn't have to be "27）snippy." A 28）contentious call ends. In the middle of the night, the Washington Post stops the presses. Supporters are informed.
Gore Campaign Manager William Daley: Our campaign continues.
Bush Campaign Manager Don Evans: When it's all said and one, we will 29）prevail.
The crowds begin to thin out. The candidates go to sleep, still not knowing which one of them is the president elect.
November 8
And there is another complication. Some who voted in Florida yesterday are crying foul, saying the voting process was a mess, in places like, Palm Beach County, where the ballot was confusing, might have resulted in a lot of mistaken votes for 30）Pat Buchanan.
Who Is To Blame?
But we cannot get to the end of this broadcast without looking at what role we, in the media, played last night, though we are not certain what effect, if any, our mistaken projections in Florida had. The background is this: since 1980, 31）the television networks have made election projections based on voters telling exit pollsters how they voted, and some actual voting returns. It is almost always accurate. Last night, in an uncertain political environment we saw the result of two rare mistakes.
When the first returns came in, from certain 32）precincts, it looked like Al Gore's exit poll lead neatly matched his lead in those early key precincts, so the programmers said, you know, we can give the state to Gore because the lead, it's real. So 33）the expert vote counters, that worked for all the networks in New York, sent this message at 34）7:52 Eastern: In Florida, the presidential, Gore wins. The problem was they went too fast, and the networks competing to call states as quickly as possible, went along. Because it now appears that the first precincts that reported in were not typical. The match in fact was 35）flawed, and pretty quickly, Gore's lead began to disappear.
The second error came later. Around 2 am, George Bush was ahead, but then, he got a sudden and unexpected boost from, of all places, Broward County. That's a Gore county. Suddenly, Bush was 50,000 votes ahead, with 80% of the state in. First the Fox Network figured Al Gore can't catch up now, so they called the state, and very quickly, perhaps for competitive reasons, so did everybody else. But again, it turned out they moved too fast. Those first pro-Bush votes from Broward were quickly followed by thousands of pro-Gore votes. So Bush's 50,000 vote-lead was reduced very quickly to a lead of 224 votes. Time to 36）eat crow, again.
Well, I said we didn't know what effect, if any, we'd had. In fact we had some, in the form of premature congratulations from several capitals overseas. The leaders immediately issued statements congratulating George Bush. They, like us, took it back a little later on.
You Want To Gamble?
After one of the most 37）tumultuous elections in recent history, the campaign to win the White House continues into another week, sowing the seeds of 38）discord and uncertainty in Washington and in the markets along the way. The stock market, already nervous because of the slowing economy and warnings of about the 39）decelerating pace of future growth, took the political developments hard this week. At 1:30 on 40）Thursday afternoon, the Dow went into a 41）free fall when the Gore campaign announced that it would support legal actions in Florida.
While the result is still too close to call, the sometimes rocky relationship between China and the U.S. will remain important to the new administration. Republicans in Hong Kong say Sino-US ties are strategically crucial and that won't change, even if George W. Bush becomes president.
American in HK: You are gonna see a $1.3 Trillion 42）tax rebate, 43% of which will go to the top 1% of Americans. You'd see a breaking of 43）the balanced budget agreement……
Ahead of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, business groups say a Bush presidency would be better for free trade.
Not A Big Deal
There have been more 44）allegations of election 45）irregularities in the United States, the latest being in Wisconsin, where Gore led Bush by just more than 6,000 votes.
Dozens of students at 46）Marquette University in 47）Milwaukee are now openly 48）boasting: They voted more than once in last week's election.
Student: I realized that it wouldn't be impossible for me to vote again, and so that's what I did. I ended up voting four times that day, for myself.
It's not known who got the extra votes, but students say officials at the polling place did little to prevent it.
Student Editor: Their IDs weren't being checked. Their 49）proof of address wasn't being checked.
Michael McGraw, an editor of the campus newspaper, The Marquette Tribune, says a 50）canvass by his reporters found 141 students who admitted to voting more than once, which is a 51）felony offence.
Student editor: It kind of struck them like. "Felony offence? What are you talking about? I just voted twice, that's not that big a deal."
52）Dave Letterman: All kidding aside, here's my fear. Here's what I'm concerned about. If they keep demanding these recounts, if we don't put an end to these recounting, if the recounts don't stop, here's my fear, sooner or later, there's gonna be a winner. That's what I'm scared of…… It can't go on like this……
Lesson One: Know Thy Country
Across the country, many students are following the 53）twists and turns of this presidential race as never before.
Student A: I don't think that the election is worth anything if it doesn't represent the will of the majority of people.
Student B: I'm just concerned about what a 54）laughing stock we are to the rest of the world.
So they ask, What's wrong with the system?
Teacher: If we lose faith in the voting process, we have a problem in this country.
Some kids have trouble understanding the Electoral College, or the fact that the candidate can win the popular vote, and still lose the race. But in this once in a life time election, these are lessons they are unlikely to forget.
Student C: When Jefferson and all those people decided on the electoral college system, they never ever dreamed it would ever get this close, and now that it has, it's really an incredible happening.
At the Packer 55）Collegiate Institute, in Brooklyn, this model Congress debated, then voted to abolish the Electoral College today, 11 to 3.
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November 19
Here briefly is where we stand tonight. Lawyers for both sides have filed their arguments for tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing. The manual recounts continue in two Florida counties. They'll begin in another third tomorrow. A growing dispute over the rejection of some of those absentee ballots, absentee ballots which increased George W. Bush's slim lead to 930 votes in what remains an uncertified statewide account. Nothing now is more important than tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing and that's where we begin. ABC's Erin Hayes is in 56）Tallahassee tonight.
Both camps 57）scrambled to get their briefs in by deadline today. Hundreds of pages of argument and evidence that all 58）boiled down essentially to this, whether Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, abused her 59）discretion, by holding 60）hard and fast to last weeks deadline for accepting manually counted votes. It all goes before the seven-member Florida Supreme Court tomorrow. Almost all the justices are Democrats, but even many Republicans who know them say, Politics is not likely to 61）sway them.
1） fuel vt.支持，刺激
2） dramatic a.激動(dòng)人心的，惹人注目的
3） billow vi. 波濤洶涌，如波浪一般飄動(dòng)
4） stockrider n. 騎馬的牧羊人或牧牛人，牛仔注釋
5） G'Day: Good day, 即“你好” 注釋
6） 這首歌由澳大利亞小姑娘妮琦·韋伯斯特（Nikki Webster）演唱
7） breed n. （遺傳）品種；種族，品種；種，族注釋
8） compatriot n. 同胞，同國(guó)人 9） springboard n. 跳板
10） synchronize vt. 使在時(shí)間上一致，使同步
11） lag vi. 落后，延遲
這僅僅是一個(gè)笑話嗎
-----看美國(guó)總統(tǒng)大選
他們是誰(shuí)？
艾爾·戈?duì)柟バ〔际捕祭^承了各自家庭從政的傳統(tǒng)
艾爾·戈?duì)柍錾诿绹?guó)田納西州史密斯郡的卡爾撒奇。不過(guò)，因?yàn)樗母赣H是美國(guó)的參議員，他本人在卡爾撒奇和華盛頓兩地長(zhǎng)大。戈?duì)栂仍诠鸫髮W(xué)上學(xué)，后來(lái)又在范德比爾特大學(xué)先后學(xué)習(xí)宗教和法律。完成學(xué)業(yè)后，戈?duì)枅?bào)名參軍并赴越南服役，而戈?duì)柕母赣H則是美國(guó)國(guó)內(nèi)對(duì)越戰(zhàn)嚴(yán)厲的反對(duì)者之一。在一九七六年，二十八歲的戈?duì)柋贿x入國(guó)會(huì)。在一九九二年，他成了比爾·克林頓的競(jìng)選伙伴。今年（二零零零年）八月，戈?duì)柍蔀槊绹?guó)民主黨的總統(tǒng)候選人。
小布什是喬治·布什和芭芭拉·布什六個(gè)孩子中的老大，在西得克薩斯州一個(gè)叫米德蘭的小鎮(zhèn)長(zhǎng)大的。小布什的爺爺普雷斯科特·布什是來(lái)自康涅狄格州的參議員。他的父親老喬治·布什的從政之路一直走到一九八八年當(dāng)選為美國(guó)總統(tǒng)。小布什先就讀于耶魯大學(xué)，然后又在哈佛大學(xué)上學(xué)。之后，他加入了美國(guó)的國(guó)民警衛(wèi)隊(duì)空軍，這一舉動(dòng)使他避免了應(yīng)征入伍而被派到越南去打仗的命運(yùn)。在一九八八年，小布什成了他父親成功問(wèn)鼎白宮競(jìng)選活動(dòng)中的一名顧問(wèn)。
布什：我的計(jì)劃將能使平衡政府財(cái)政預(yù)算。我的計(jì)劃為急需的項(xiàng)目提供資金，這些方面包括國(guó)防、教育。我的計(jì)劃還將減少國(guó)債……
戈?duì)枺骸硗?，我還將用政府預(yù)算盈余大的那一部分用來(lái)每年分期償還國(guó)債，一直到二零一二年徹底消除國(guó)債為止。
布什：有二點(diǎn)三兆美元的政府預(yù)算盈余可以用來(lái)確保年青人在未來(lái)能真正有一個(gè)社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)計(jì)劃。
戈?duì)枺何业挠?jì)劃是這樣的：我會(huì)把社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)放在一個(gè)安全的地方……
在科技方面，布什和戈?duì)柖假澇蔀槠髽I(yè)的研究與開(kāi)發(fā)扣除課稅。兩人都支持電子政府的實(shí)現(xiàn)，讓每人都能更方便地使用政府的服務(wù)；兩人都支持互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上的隱私權(quán)得到保護(hù)。在這方面，兩人的主張幾乎沒(méi)有什么不同。
戈?duì)枺ㄔ诿芴K里州的圣路易市）：在這個(gè)不輕信之州，主動(dòng)權(quán)就在你們的手上。你可以告訴布什對(duì)于美國(guó)的未來(lái)，你們是怎么樣想的。我要你們動(dòng)動(dòng)腦子，去說(shuō)服那些還沒(méi)有下定決心的選民，告訴他們你們堅(jiān)決的主張。
戈?duì)枺ㄔ诿苄荩焊隊(duì)?利伯曼必勝！密歇根州必勝！聯(lián)合汽車工會(huì)必勝！人民必勝！上帝保佑你們！讓我們明天一起行動(dòng)吧！
在緊張的競(jìng)選活動(dòng)之后，依然是精神飽滿的喬治·W.布什回到他在得克薩斯州首府奧斯丁的家。
布什：在你們面前的是美國(guó)下任總統(tǒng)。
在你在此之前，布什已經(jīng)去過(guò)衣阿華州、威斯康星州和戈?duì)柕募亦l(xiāng)田納西州。
布什（在田納西州）：戈?duì)栆苍S能贏得華盛頓特區(qū)，但他可贏不了田納西州……
好戲才剛剛開(kāi)始
晚上好。在這次數(shù)十年來(lái)接近的總統(tǒng)選舉中，投票在美國(guó)的東岸已經(jīng)開(kāi)始了。初的結(jié)果來(lái)自新罕布什州的兩個(gè)小村子，在迪西維爾峽，得克薩斯州州長(zhǎng)小布什得了二十一票，副總統(tǒng)艾爾·戈?duì)柕昧宋迤?，而綠黨的拉爾夫·納德只獲得一票。在哈茲區(qū)，他們?nèi)说牡闷狈謩e是十七票、十三票和一票。從全國(guó)來(lái)看，雙方勝負(fù)還很難決定，不過(guò)從一些新的投票結(jié)果表明，艾爾·戈?duì)柹詣僖换I。在至關(guān)重要的選舉人投票中，雙方也是旗鼓相當(dāng)。雙方在各個(gè)州的勝者將決定他們終獲得的選舉人的票數(shù)。要成功當(dāng)選總統(tǒng)，候選人必須獲得二百七十張選舉人票。
MTV的"選擇還是錯(cuò)過(guò)"民意測(cè)驗(yàn)表明，在十八歲到二十四歲的年青人當(dāng)中，在沒(méi)有提示的情況下，有百分之二十五的人不能說(shuō)出誰(shuí)是總統(tǒng)候選人，有百分之七十的人說(shuō)不出誰(shuí)是副總統(tǒng)候選人。
提問(wèn)人：兩個(gè)副總統(tǒng)候選人是誰(shuí)？
答者甲：利伯曼和……我不知道另一個(gè)是誰(shuí)。
答者乙：麥凱恩和……天哪，是誰(shuí)……
答者丙：戈?duì)柕母笨偨y(tǒng)候選人是利伯曼，布什的是切尼。
提問(wèn)人：你在這方面還不錯(cuò)嘛。
答者丙：嘩，真棒！
全國(guó)廣播公司的湯姆·布羅克：副總統(tǒng)戈?duì)栚A了重要的一仗。我們?nèi)珖?guó)廣播公司預(yù)測(cè)他贏得了佛羅里達(dá)州的二十五張選舉人票……
美國(guó)廣播公司的彼得·詹寧斯：現(xiàn)在，我們可以對(duì)佛羅里達(dá)州的選情做一個(gè)預(yù)測(cè)。艾爾·戈?duì)栐谶@個(gè)州贏了。
全國(guó)廣播公司的湯姆·布羅克：我們?nèi)珖?guó)廣播公司現(xiàn)在正把佛羅里達(dá)州從副總統(tǒng)戈?duì)査玫钠睌?shù)中減去。
美國(guó)廣播公司的彼得·詹寧斯：美國(guó)廣播公司現(xiàn)在預(yù)測(cè)佛羅里達(dá)州成了布什的囊中之物。
布什競(jìng)選主席：得克薩斯州州長(zhǎng)喬治·布什將成為第四十三任美國(guó)總統(tǒng)。
在納什維爾，戈?duì)柕闹謧冞_(dá)成一致：他輸了。戈?duì)栔码姴际?，向他表示祝賀。接著，戈?duì)柾袃?nèi)的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)紀(jì)念碑出發(fā)，準(zhǔn)備在那里公開(kāi)承認(rèn)失敗。就在這時(shí)，這一晚的戲劇性高潮毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)到了令人難以忍受的頂點(diǎn)。戈?duì)柕闹謧冊(cè)俅芜_(dá)成一致，這的意見(jiàn)與上截然相反：競(jìng)選還沒(méi)有結(jié)束。
哥倫比亞廣播公司的丹·拉瑟：公布欄：戈?duì)柕囊幻呒?jí)顧問(wèn)確認(rèn)，戈?duì)柍坊厮某姓J(rèn)。
戈?duì)栍种码娦〔际病Ｐ〔际矌缀醪桓蚁嘈胚@種事情。他告訴戈?duì)柸?做你認(rèn)為應(yīng)該做的事".期間，戈?duì)枌?duì)布什說(shuō)他沒(méi)有必要如此"目中無(wú)人".充滿火藥味的對(duì)話結(jié)束了。深夜，《華盛頓郵報(bào)》的印刷機(jī)停了下來(lái)。雙方的支持者也得到了消息。
戈?duì)柛?jìng)選主任威廉·達(dá)利：我們的競(jìng)選活動(dòng)將繼續(xù)下去。
布什競(jìng)選主任當(dāng)·艾凡斯：等所有的這一切結(jié)束時(shí)，我們一定會(huì)勝利的。
人群慢慢散去了。帶著未知數(shù)，兩位候選人也去睡覺(jué)了
十一月八日
更加復(fù)雜的事情還在后頭。昨天，一些佛羅里達(dá)州的選民聲稱被愚弄了。他們說(shuō)投票過(guò)程簡(jiǎn)直是一團(tuán)糟，在一些地方，像棕櫚灘郡，那里的選票非?；靵y，可能導(dǎo)致帕特·布坎南誤得不少選票
誰(shuí)之過(guò)？
在這次節(jié)目結(jié)束之前，我們得看看我們媒體在昨晚的事件中究竟扮演了一個(gè)怎么樣的角色，雖說(shuō)我們不敢肯定對(duì)佛羅里達(dá)州的錯(cuò)誤預(yù)測(cè)是否造成了什么后果，或者說(shuō)造成了怎么樣的后果。這件事的背景是這樣的：從一九八零年開(kāi)始，電視廣播公司一直依靠選民給民意測(cè)驗(yàn)者的資料和一些真實(shí)的選舉結(jié)果來(lái)進(jìn)行投票預(yù)測(cè)。靠這種做法得到的結(jié)果一直都很準(zhǔn)確。但在昨天晚上，在一個(gè)難以預(yù)料的政治環(huán)境下，我們目睹了兩個(gè)罕見(jiàn)的錯(cuò)誤。
從第一批統(tǒng)計(jì)結(jié)果來(lái)看，艾爾·戈?duì)柷闆r與早些時(shí)候一些關(guān)鍵選區(qū)的情況相吻合，這時(shí)，程序員覺(jué)得戈?duì)柕牡匚皇谴_實(shí)無(wú)疑的，我們應(yīng)該可以把佛羅里達(dá)州的選舉人票給戈?duì)柫恕Ｓ谑?，為紐約所有的電視廣播公司服務(wù)的經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的投票統(tǒng)計(jì)人員在東岸時(shí)間七點(diǎn)五十二分發(fā)出了這樣一條信息：佛羅里達(dá)州，總統(tǒng)選舉，戈?duì)柸佟?wèn)題是他們太急了。急于公布各州選舉結(jié)果的電視廣播公司也跟著錯(cuò)了。因?yàn)榻又l(fā)現(xiàn)報(bào)告中反映的第一批選區(qū)的情況并不夠典型，與實(shí)際相吻合的形勢(shì)是有缺陷的，很快地，戈?duì)柕南Я恕?BR> 晚些時(shí)候又發(fā)現(xiàn)了第二個(gè)錯(cuò)誤。在次日（十一月八日）的凌晨?jī)牲c(diǎn)，喬治·布什不僅，而且突然間從布勞沃德郡得到意想不到的收獲。那可是戈?duì)柕牡乇P。在已經(jīng)統(tǒng)計(jì)的百分之八十選票里，布什一下子了五萬(wàn)票。首先是?？怂闺娨暰W(wǎng)絡(luò)算出戈?duì)栆呀?jīng)不可能追上來(lái)了，所以他們宣布了對(duì)這個(gè)州的預(yù)測(cè)。也許是相互競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的緣故，其它電視臺(tái)很快地也跟了上來(lái)?？墒牵麄冞@次還是太急躁了。數(shù)以千計(jì)的戈?duì)栔С终叩倪x票很快追上了第一批布勞沃德郡的布什支持者的選票。布什的票數(shù)很快從五萬(wàn)張降到二百二十四張。
我說(shuō)了，我不知道我們昨晚的做法造成了什么影響。其實(shí)，影響還是有的。這就是從一些國(guó)家的首都發(fā)來(lái)的倉(cāng)促賀電。像我們一樣，這些國(guó)家的元首在晚些時(shí)候收回了他們的話。
敢賭一把嗎？
在經(jīng)歷了歷混亂的大選后，贏得白宮的爭(zhēng)斗還繼續(xù)。這不僅僅在華府埋下了不協(xié)調(diào)的伏筆，也給市場(chǎng)帶來(lái)不穩(wěn)定的因素。股市本來(lái)就因?yàn)樵鲩L(zhǎng)減慢的經(jīng)濟(jì)和關(guān)于未來(lái)經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)緩慢的警告而提心吊膽的，而大選政治更讓股市這一周受到重創(chuàng)。在戈?duì)栃紩?huì)支持在佛羅里達(dá)州采取法律行動(dòng)后，星期四下午一點(diǎn)半，道瓊斯工業(yè)指數(shù)急速下跌。
美國(guó)的大選結(jié)果還沒(méi)有后的結(jié)果，而搖擺不定的中美關(guān)系對(duì)新政府來(lái)說(shuō)仍然是很重要的。在香港的美國(guó)共和黨人說(shuō)，中美關(guān)系有著至關(guān)重要的戰(zhàn)略性地位，即使是喬治·W.布什當(dāng)選也不會(huì)改變的。
在香港的美國(guó)人：（如果布什上臺(tái)的話） 報(bào)稅回扣將達(dá)一點(diǎn)三兆美元，美國(guó)富裕的百分之一的人中將獲得其中的百分之四十三。早先達(dá)成的政府財(cái)政預(yù)算平衡的協(xié)議也將失效……
在中國(guó)進(jìn)入國(guó)際貿(mào)易組織的前夕，商界認(rèn)為布什當(dāng)選會(huì)對(duì)自由貿(mào)易更為有利。
沒(méi)有什么大不了的
在美國(guó)，又有更多關(guān)于大選投票違規(guī)行為的指控。新的事件來(lái)自威斯康星州。在那里，戈?duì)柋炔际擦Ф嗥薄?BR> 有十幾個(gè)密爾沃基的馬凱特大學(xué)學(xué)生公開(kāi)夸耀，說(shuō)自己在上星期的投票中投了不止一票。
學(xué)生：我想，不知有沒(méi)有可能再去投一票，所以我就又去投了一票。那天，我自己結(jié)果投了四票。
無(wú)人知道究竟是那位候選人得到這些多投的票，但學(xué)生說(shuō)投票站的官員并沒(méi)有采取什么有效措施來(lái)防止類似情況的發(fā)生。
學(xué)生編輯：沒(méi)人檢查學(xué)生的身份證，也沒(méi)有人查他們的居住地證明。
米高·麥格勞是學(xué)生報(bào)紙《馬凱特論壇》的編輯，他說(shuō)他的手下做了一個(gè)調(diào)查，發(fā)現(xiàn)有一百四十一個(gè)學(xué)生承認(rèn)那天投票不止。這種行為是一項(xiàng)重罪。
學(xué)生編輯：他們覺(jué)得很愕然?！爸刈铮窟@叫什么話？我只不過(guò)是投了兩次票而已，這有什么大不了的。"
戴夫·萊特曼：先把玩笑放到一邊，我怕的是這個(gè)。我真正關(guān)心的這個(gè)：如果他們不停地要求重點(diǎn)選票，如果我們不結(jié)束沒(méi)完沒(méi)了的選票重點(diǎn)，如果重新點(diǎn)票不結(jié)束的話，我擔(dān)心的是早晚一定會(huì)有一個(gè)贏家。這就是讓我真正感到害怕的。這件事不能再這樣繼續(xù)下去……
第一課：了解你的國(guó)家
在全國(guó)，許多學(xué)生也前所未有的關(guān)注著這場(chǎng)總統(tǒng)大選。
學(xué)生甲：我覺(jué)得要是選舉不代表大多數(shù)人的意愿的話就沒(méi)有意思。
學(xué)生乙：我關(guān)心的是我們已成了世界上遭恥笑的對(duì)象。
因此，學(xué)生問(wèn)道：我們的制度出了什么問(wèn)題？
老師：如果我們對(duì)投票程序失去了信心，這個(gè)國(guó)家就很成問(wèn)題了。
有些學(xué)生搞不懂選舉人制度，也不明白為什么候選人在普選中落敗但卻能后勝出。不過(guò)，這次千載難逢的選舉給他們上了難忘的一課。
學(xué)生丙：杰弗遜和其他人在設(shè)立選舉人制度的時(shí)候，他們從來(lái)沒(méi)有想過(guò)會(huì)出現(xiàn)這種情況。而現(xiàn)在這種事情發(fā)生了，真是不可思議。
在布魯克林的帕克大學(xué)院，學(xué)生今天模仿國(guó)會(huì)進(jìn)行辯論，他們終投票取消選舉人制度，十一比三。
精彩的還在后頭……
十一月十九日
現(xiàn)在的情況簡(jiǎn)單來(lái)說(shuō)是這樣。雙方的律師就明天佛羅里達(dá)州高法院的聽(tīng)證提出訴訟。同時(shí)，手工計(jì)票在佛羅里達(dá)的兩個(gè)郡繼續(xù)進(jìn)行。明天，會(huì)有第三個(gè)郡開(kāi)始手工票。雙方為是否應(yīng)該拒絕其中的一些缺席選票而吵得不可開(kāi)交，缺席選票已把喬治·W.布什的微弱優(yōu)勢(shì)增加到九百三十票。而佛羅里達(dá)州的選票數(shù)目還沒(méi)有被官方公開(kāi)證實(shí)?，F(xiàn)在重要的是明天佛羅里達(dá)州的聽(tīng)證會(huì)。我們也從這里開(kāi)始。請(qǐng)聽(tīng)美國(guó)廣播公司艾琳·海斯在塔拉哈西的報(bào)道。
雙方今天匆匆忙忙地趕在期限前提交各自的訴訟要點(diǎn)。數(shù)百頁(yè)訴訟文件的要點(diǎn)都圍繞一個(gè)問(wèn)題：佛羅里達(dá)州州務(wù)卿凱瑟琳·哈里斯上星期在堅(jiān)持接受人工計(jì)票的后期究竟有沒(méi)有濫用權(quán)利。明天，這些都將由有七個(gè)成員組成的佛羅里達(dá)州高法院決定。幾乎所有的法官都是民主黨人，但很多認(rèn)識(shí)他們的共和黨人也說(shuō)，他們是不會(huì)輕易被政治左右的。
Al Gore and Reorge W.Bush bothe continue political traditions set down by their families.
Al Gore was born just outside Carthage in Smith County, Tennessee, but split his time growing up between there and Washington, DC where 6）his father was a Senator. Gore attended Harvard and later 7）Vanderbilt where he studied Religion, then Law. After finishing school he enrolled in the Army and served in Vietnam, even though his father was one of the Vietnam War's harshest critics. Gore was elected to Congress in 1976 at the age of 28. In 1992, he was named Bill Clinton's running mate. This August he became the Democratic Party's candidate for President.
George W. grew up in West Texas in a town called Midland, the eldest of 6 children of George and Barbara Bush. George W. Bush's grandfather 8）Prescott Bush was a Senator in Connecticut. Then his father George Bush Sr. made it all the way to President in 1988. George W. studied at Yale, then Harvard before serving with the 9）Air National Guard in Texas, a move that helped him avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. In 1988 George W. Bush served as an advisor for his fathers successful presidential bid.
Bush: My plan balances the budget. It funds needed priorities including defense and education. It reduces the 10）national debt……
Gore: ……and I'll devote the largest share of our 11）surplus to 12）paying down the national debt every year until it is completely eliminated by the year 2012.
Bush: There's $2.3 trillion of surplus that we can use to make sure that younger workers have a 13）Social Security plan in the future.
Gore: Here's my plan. I will keep Social Security in a 14）locked box……
When it comes to technology issues, Bush and Gore both favor a 15）tax credit for company research and development. Both favor e-Government that is using the web to make government more accessible to everyone, and both want Internet user privacy protected. The differences are minor.
Gore（in St. Louis, MO）: You have the decision right here in the 16）Show Me State. You have the ability to show him what you want in the way of America's future. I want you to use your head to persuade the undecided voters. Tell them how strongly you feel about this.
Gore（in Michigan）: Gore-Lieberman win! Michigan wins! 17）UAW wins! The people win! God bless you! Let's do it tomorrow……
It was an upbeat George W. Bush who returned home to Austin at the end of a 18）grueling campaign.
Bush: You're looking at the next President of the United States.
Bush had earlier swung through Iowa, Wisconsin, and Tennessee, Al Gore's home state.
Bush（in Tennessee）: He may win Washington, DC, but he's not going to win Tennessee……
It's Just the Beginning
Good Evening. Voting has begun along the U.S. East Coast in the tightest presidential election for decades. 19）The first results came from two tiny hamlets in New Hampshire. In Dixville Notch, Texas Governor George W. Bush got 21 votes to Vice Presidents Al Gore's 5 and 1 for the 20）Green Party's 21）Ralph Nader. In Hart's Location, it was Bush 17, Gore 13 and Nader 1. Nationwide the race remains too close to call, but some late opinion polls are showing a swing towards Al Gore. It's equally tight in the race for the 22）all-important Electoral College votes, decided according to the winner in each state. 270 votes are needed for the presidency.
And MTV Chose or Lose Poll found that 25% of young adults between the ages of 18 to 24 cannot name the presidential candidates without prompting. And 70% can't identify the vice presidential candidates
Interviewer: Who are the 2 vice presidential candidates?
Interviewee 1: Lieberman and I don't know who the other one is.
Interviewee 2: McCain and …… God, what's the……
Interviewee 3: Lieberman for Gore and Cheney for Bush.
Interviewer: You're great with that.
Interviewee 3: All right !
Tom Brokow of NBC NEWS: An important win for Vice President Al Gore, NBC News projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of Florida ……
Peter Jennings of ABC News: We are now able to make a projection in the state of Florida. Al Gore wins the state of Florida ……
Tom Brokow of NBC NEWS: NBC News is now taking Florida out of Vice President Gore's column ……
Peter Jennings of ABC News: ABC News is now going to project that Florida goes to Mr. Bush.
Bush Campaign Chairman: George Bush, governor of Texas, will become the 43 president of the United States.
In Nashville, there is now 23）unanimity among his aids: he has lost. Gore calls Bush. He offers congratulations, and heads to the War Memorial to publicly 24）concede. Now, a night of high drama becomes positively 25）excruciating. Again, there is unanimity. This time that the race is not over.
Dan Rather of CBS: Bulletin: A senior Gore aid confirms, Gore withdraws concession.
Gore calls Bush for a second time. Bush is 26）incredulous, disbelieving. He tells Gore, "do what you have to do". Gore at some point tells Bush, he doesn't have to be "27）snippy." A 28）contentious call ends. In the middle of the night, the Washington Post stops the presses. Supporters are informed.
Gore Campaign Manager William Daley: Our campaign continues.
Bush Campaign Manager Don Evans: When it's all said and one, we will 29）prevail.
The crowds begin to thin out. The candidates go to sleep, still not knowing which one of them is the president elect.
November 8
And there is another complication. Some who voted in Florida yesterday are crying foul, saying the voting process was a mess, in places like, Palm Beach County, where the ballot was confusing, might have resulted in a lot of mistaken votes for 30）Pat Buchanan.
Who Is To Blame?
But we cannot get to the end of this broadcast without looking at what role we, in the media, played last night, though we are not certain what effect, if any, our mistaken projections in Florida had. The background is this: since 1980, 31）the television networks have made election projections based on voters telling exit pollsters how they voted, and some actual voting returns. It is almost always accurate. Last night, in an uncertain political environment we saw the result of two rare mistakes.
When the first returns came in, from certain 32）precincts, it looked like Al Gore's exit poll lead neatly matched his lead in those early key precincts, so the programmers said, you know, we can give the state to Gore because the lead, it's real. So 33）the expert vote counters, that worked for all the networks in New York, sent this message at 34）7:52 Eastern: In Florida, the presidential, Gore wins. The problem was they went too fast, and the networks competing to call states as quickly as possible, went along. Because it now appears that the first precincts that reported in were not typical. The match in fact was 35）flawed, and pretty quickly, Gore's lead began to disappear.
The second error came later. Around 2 am, George Bush was ahead, but then, he got a sudden and unexpected boost from, of all places, Broward County. That's a Gore county. Suddenly, Bush was 50,000 votes ahead, with 80% of the state in. First the Fox Network figured Al Gore can't catch up now, so they called the state, and very quickly, perhaps for competitive reasons, so did everybody else. But again, it turned out they moved too fast. Those first pro-Bush votes from Broward were quickly followed by thousands of pro-Gore votes. So Bush's 50,000 vote-lead was reduced very quickly to a lead of 224 votes. Time to 36）eat crow, again.
Well, I said we didn't know what effect, if any, we'd had. In fact we had some, in the form of premature congratulations from several capitals overseas. The leaders immediately issued statements congratulating George Bush. They, like us, took it back a little later on.
You Want To Gamble?
After one of the most 37）tumultuous elections in recent history, the campaign to win the White House continues into another week, sowing the seeds of 38）discord and uncertainty in Washington and in the markets along the way. The stock market, already nervous because of the slowing economy and warnings of about the 39）decelerating pace of future growth, took the political developments hard this week. At 1:30 on 40）Thursday afternoon, the Dow went into a 41）free fall when the Gore campaign announced that it would support legal actions in Florida.
While the result is still too close to call, the sometimes rocky relationship between China and the U.S. will remain important to the new administration. Republicans in Hong Kong say Sino-US ties are strategically crucial and that won't change, even if George W. Bush becomes president.
American in HK: You are gonna see a $1.3 Trillion 42）tax rebate, 43% of which will go to the top 1% of Americans. You'd see a breaking of 43）the balanced budget agreement……
Ahead of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, business groups say a Bush presidency would be better for free trade.
Not A Big Deal
There have been more 44）allegations of election 45）irregularities in the United States, the latest being in Wisconsin, where Gore led Bush by just more than 6,000 votes.
Dozens of students at 46）Marquette University in 47）Milwaukee are now openly 48）boasting: They voted more than once in last week's election.
Student: I realized that it wouldn't be impossible for me to vote again, and so that's what I did. I ended up voting four times that day, for myself.
It's not known who got the extra votes, but students say officials at the polling place did little to prevent it.
Student Editor: Their IDs weren't being checked. Their 49）proof of address wasn't being checked.
Michael McGraw, an editor of the campus newspaper, The Marquette Tribune, says a 50）canvass by his reporters found 141 students who admitted to voting more than once, which is a 51）felony offence.
Student editor: It kind of struck them like. "Felony offence? What are you talking about? I just voted twice, that's not that big a deal."
52）Dave Letterman: All kidding aside, here's my fear. Here's what I'm concerned about. If they keep demanding these recounts, if we don't put an end to these recounting, if the recounts don't stop, here's my fear, sooner or later, there's gonna be a winner. That's what I'm scared of…… It can't go on like this……
Lesson One: Know Thy Country
Across the country, many students are following the 53）twists and turns of this presidential race as never before.
Student A: I don't think that the election is worth anything if it doesn't represent the will of the majority of people.
Student B: I'm just concerned about what a 54）laughing stock we are to the rest of the world.
So they ask, What's wrong with the system?
Teacher: If we lose faith in the voting process, we have a problem in this country.
Some kids have trouble understanding the Electoral College, or the fact that the candidate can win the popular vote, and still lose the race. But in this once in a life time election, these are lessons they are unlikely to forget.
Student C: When Jefferson and all those people decided on the electoral college system, they never ever dreamed it would ever get this close, and now that it has, it's really an incredible happening.
At the Packer 55）Collegiate Institute, in Brooklyn, this model Congress debated, then voted to abolish the Electoral College today, 11 to 3.
There's more to com
November 19
Here briefly is where we stand tonight. Lawyers for both sides have filed their arguments for tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing. The manual recounts continue in two Florida counties. They'll begin in another third tomorrow. A growing dispute over the rejection of some of those absentee ballots, absentee ballots which increased George W. Bush's slim lead to 930 votes in what remains an uncertified statewide account. Nothing now is more important than tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing and that's where we begin. ABC's Erin Hayes is in 56）Tallahassee tonight.
Both camps 57）scrambled to get their briefs in by deadline today. Hundreds of pages of argument and evidence that all 58）boiled down essentially to this, whether Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, abused her 59）discretion, by holding 60）hard and fast to last weeks deadline for accepting manually counted votes. It all goes before the seven-member Florida Supreme Court tomorrow. Almost all the justices are Democrats, but even many Republicans who know them say, Politics is not likely to 61）sway them.
1） fuel vt.支持，刺激
2） dramatic a.激動(dòng)人心的，惹人注目的
3） billow vi. 波濤洶涌，如波浪一般飄動(dòng)
4） stockrider n. 騎馬的牧羊人或牧牛人，牛仔注釋
5） G'Day: Good day, 即“你好” 注釋
6） 這首歌由澳大利亞小姑娘妮琦·韋伯斯特（Nikki Webster）演唱
7） breed n. （遺傳）品種；種族，品種；種，族注釋
8） compatriot n. 同胞，同國(guó)人 9） springboard n. 跳板
10） synchronize vt. 使在時(shí)間上一致，使同步
11） lag vi. 落后，延遲
這僅僅是一個(gè)笑話嗎
-----看美國(guó)總統(tǒng)大選
他們是誰(shuí)？
艾爾·戈?duì)柟バ〔际捕祭^承了各自家庭從政的傳統(tǒng)
艾爾·戈?duì)柍錾诿绹?guó)田納西州史密斯郡的卡爾撒奇。不過(guò)，因?yàn)樗母赣H是美國(guó)的參議員，他本人在卡爾撒奇和華盛頓兩地長(zhǎng)大。戈?duì)栂仍诠鸫髮W(xué)上學(xué)，后來(lái)又在范德比爾特大學(xué)先后學(xué)習(xí)宗教和法律。完成學(xué)業(yè)后，戈?duì)枅?bào)名參軍并赴越南服役，而戈?duì)柕母赣H則是美國(guó)國(guó)內(nèi)對(duì)越戰(zhàn)嚴(yán)厲的反對(duì)者之一。在一九七六年，二十八歲的戈?duì)柋贿x入國(guó)會(huì)。在一九九二年，他成了比爾·克林頓的競(jìng)選伙伴。今年（二零零零年）八月，戈?duì)柍蔀槊绹?guó)民主黨的總統(tǒng)候選人。
小布什是喬治·布什和芭芭拉·布什六個(gè)孩子中的老大，在西得克薩斯州一個(gè)叫米德蘭的小鎮(zhèn)長(zhǎng)大的。小布什的爺爺普雷斯科特·布什是來(lái)自康涅狄格州的參議員。他的父親老喬治·布什的從政之路一直走到一九八八年當(dāng)選為美國(guó)總統(tǒng)。小布什先就讀于耶魯大學(xué)，然后又在哈佛大學(xué)上學(xué)。之后，他加入了美國(guó)的國(guó)民警衛(wèi)隊(duì)空軍，這一舉動(dòng)使他避免了應(yīng)征入伍而被派到越南去打仗的命運(yùn)。在一九八八年，小布什成了他父親成功問(wèn)鼎白宮競(jìng)選活動(dòng)中的一名顧問(wèn)。
布什：我的計(jì)劃將能使平衡政府財(cái)政預(yù)算。我的計(jì)劃為急需的項(xiàng)目提供資金，這些方面包括國(guó)防、教育。我的計(jì)劃還將減少國(guó)債……
戈?duì)枺骸硗?，我還將用政府預(yù)算盈余大的那一部分用來(lái)每年分期償還國(guó)債，一直到二零一二年徹底消除國(guó)債為止。
布什：有二點(diǎn)三兆美元的政府預(yù)算盈余可以用來(lái)確保年青人在未來(lái)能真正有一個(gè)社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)計(jì)劃。
戈?duì)枺何业挠?jì)劃是這樣的：我會(huì)把社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)放在一個(gè)安全的地方……
在科技方面，布什和戈?duì)柖假澇蔀槠髽I(yè)的研究與開(kāi)發(fā)扣除課稅。兩人都支持電子政府的實(shí)現(xiàn)，讓每人都能更方便地使用政府的服務(wù)；兩人都支持互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上的隱私權(quán)得到保護(hù)。在這方面，兩人的主張幾乎沒(méi)有什么不同。
戈?duì)枺ㄔ诿芴K里州的圣路易市）：在這個(gè)不輕信之州，主動(dòng)權(quán)就在你們的手上。你可以告訴布什對(duì)于美國(guó)的未來(lái)，你們是怎么樣想的。我要你們動(dòng)動(dòng)腦子，去說(shuō)服那些還沒(méi)有下定決心的選民，告訴他們你們堅(jiān)決的主張。
戈?duì)枺ㄔ诿苄荩焊隊(duì)?利伯曼必勝！密歇根州必勝！聯(lián)合汽車工會(huì)必勝！人民必勝！上帝保佑你們！讓我們明天一起行動(dòng)吧！
在緊張的競(jìng)選活動(dòng)之后，依然是精神飽滿的喬治·W.布什回到他在得克薩斯州首府奧斯丁的家。
布什：在你們面前的是美國(guó)下任總統(tǒng)。
在你在此之前，布什已經(jīng)去過(guò)衣阿華州、威斯康星州和戈?duì)柕募亦l(xiāng)田納西州。
布什（在田納西州）：戈?duì)栆苍S能贏得華盛頓特區(qū)，但他可贏不了田納西州……
好戲才剛剛開(kāi)始
晚上好。在這次數(shù)十年來(lái)接近的總統(tǒng)選舉中，投票在美國(guó)的東岸已經(jīng)開(kāi)始了。初的結(jié)果來(lái)自新罕布什州的兩個(gè)小村子，在迪西維爾峽，得克薩斯州州長(zhǎng)小布什得了二十一票，副總統(tǒng)艾爾·戈?duì)柕昧宋迤?，而綠黨的拉爾夫·納德只獲得一票。在哈茲區(qū)，他們?nèi)说牡闷狈謩e是十七票、十三票和一票。從全國(guó)來(lái)看，雙方勝負(fù)還很難決定，不過(guò)從一些新的投票結(jié)果表明，艾爾·戈?duì)柹詣僖换I。在至關(guān)重要的選舉人投票中，雙方也是旗鼓相當(dāng)。雙方在各個(gè)州的勝者將決定他們終獲得的選舉人的票數(shù)。要成功當(dāng)選總統(tǒng)，候選人必須獲得二百七十張選舉人票。
MTV的"選擇還是錯(cuò)過(guò)"民意測(cè)驗(yàn)表明，在十八歲到二十四歲的年青人當(dāng)中，在沒(méi)有提示的情況下，有百分之二十五的人不能說(shuō)出誰(shuí)是總統(tǒng)候選人，有百分之七十的人說(shuō)不出誰(shuí)是副總統(tǒng)候選人。
提問(wèn)人：兩個(gè)副總統(tǒng)候選人是誰(shuí)？
答者甲：利伯曼和……我不知道另一個(gè)是誰(shuí)。
答者乙：麥凱恩和……天哪，是誰(shuí)……
答者丙：戈?duì)柕母笨偨y(tǒng)候選人是利伯曼，布什的是切尼。
提問(wèn)人：你在這方面還不錯(cuò)嘛。
答者丙：嘩，真棒！
全國(guó)廣播公司的湯姆·布羅克：副總統(tǒng)戈?duì)栚A了重要的一仗。我們?nèi)珖?guó)廣播公司預(yù)測(cè)他贏得了佛羅里達(dá)州的二十五張選舉人票……
美國(guó)廣播公司的彼得·詹寧斯：現(xiàn)在，我們可以對(duì)佛羅里達(dá)州的選情做一個(gè)預(yù)測(cè)。艾爾·戈?duì)栐谶@個(gè)州贏了。
全國(guó)廣播公司的湯姆·布羅克：我們?nèi)珖?guó)廣播公司現(xiàn)在正把佛羅里達(dá)州從副總統(tǒng)戈?duì)査玫钠睌?shù)中減去。
美國(guó)廣播公司的彼得·詹寧斯：美國(guó)廣播公司現(xiàn)在預(yù)測(cè)佛羅里達(dá)州成了布什的囊中之物。
布什競(jìng)選主席：得克薩斯州州長(zhǎng)喬治·布什將成為第四十三任美國(guó)總統(tǒng)。
在納什維爾，戈?duì)柕闹謧冞_(dá)成一致：他輸了。戈?duì)栔码姴际?，向他表示祝賀。接著，戈?duì)柾袃?nèi)的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)紀(jì)念碑出發(fā)，準(zhǔn)備在那里公開(kāi)承認(rèn)失敗。就在這時(shí)，這一晚的戲劇性高潮毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)到了令人難以忍受的頂點(diǎn)。戈?duì)柕闹謧冊(cè)俅芜_(dá)成一致，這的意見(jiàn)與上截然相反：競(jìng)選還沒(méi)有結(jié)束。
哥倫比亞廣播公司的丹·拉瑟：公布欄：戈?duì)柕囊幻呒?jí)顧問(wèn)確認(rèn)，戈?duì)柍坊厮某姓J(rèn)。
戈?duì)栍种码娦〔际病Ｐ〔际矌缀醪桓蚁嘈胚@種事情。他告訴戈?duì)柸?做你認(rèn)為應(yīng)該做的事".期間，戈?duì)枌?duì)布什說(shuō)他沒(méi)有必要如此"目中無(wú)人".充滿火藥味的對(duì)話結(jié)束了。深夜，《華盛頓郵報(bào)》的印刷機(jī)停了下來(lái)。雙方的支持者也得到了消息。
戈?duì)柛?jìng)選主任威廉·達(dá)利：我們的競(jìng)選活動(dòng)將繼續(xù)下去。
布什競(jìng)選主任當(dāng)·艾凡斯：等所有的這一切結(jié)束時(shí)，我們一定會(huì)勝利的。
人群慢慢散去了。帶著未知數(shù)，兩位候選人也去睡覺(jué)了
十一月八日
更加復(fù)雜的事情還在后頭。昨天，一些佛羅里達(dá)州的選民聲稱被愚弄了。他們說(shuō)投票過(guò)程簡(jiǎn)直是一團(tuán)糟，在一些地方，像棕櫚灘郡，那里的選票非?；靵y，可能導(dǎo)致帕特·布坎南誤得不少選票
誰(shuí)之過(guò)？
在這次節(jié)目結(jié)束之前，我們得看看我們媒體在昨晚的事件中究竟扮演了一個(gè)怎么樣的角色，雖說(shuō)我們不敢肯定對(duì)佛羅里達(dá)州的錯(cuò)誤預(yù)測(cè)是否造成了什么后果，或者說(shuō)造成了怎么樣的后果。這件事的背景是這樣的：從一九八零年開(kāi)始，電視廣播公司一直依靠選民給民意測(cè)驗(yàn)者的資料和一些真實(shí)的選舉結(jié)果來(lái)進(jìn)行投票預(yù)測(cè)。靠這種做法得到的結(jié)果一直都很準(zhǔn)確。但在昨天晚上，在一個(gè)難以預(yù)料的政治環(huán)境下，我們目睹了兩個(gè)罕見(jiàn)的錯(cuò)誤。
從第一批統(tǒng)計(jì)結(jié)果來(lái)看，艾爾·戈?duì)柷闆r與早些時(shí)候一些關(guān)鍵選區(qū)的情況相吻合，這時(shí)，程序員覺(jué)得戈?duì)柕牡匚皇谴_實(shí)無(wú)疑的，我們應(yīng)該可以把佛羅里達(dá)州的選舉人票給戈?duì)柫恕Ｓ谑?，為紐約所有的電視廣播公司服務(wù)的經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的投票統(tǒng)計(jì)人員在東岸時(shí)間七點(diǎn)五十二分發(fā)出了這樣一條信息：佛羅里達(dá)州，總統(tǒng)選舉，戈?duì)柸佟?wèn)題是他們太急了。急于公布各州選舉結(jié)果的電視廣播公司也跟著錯(cuò)了。因?yàn)榻又l(fā)現(xiàn)報(bào)告中反映的第一批選區(qū)的情況并不夠典型，與實(shí)際相吻合的形勢(shì)是有缺陷的，很快地，戈?duì)柕南Я恕?BR> 晚些時(shí)候又發(fā)現(xiàn)了第二個(gè)錯(cuò)誤。在次日（十一月八日）的凌晨?jī)牲c(diǎn)，喬治·布什不僅，而且突然間從布勞沃德郡得到意想不到的收獲。那可是戈?duì)柕牡乇P。在已經(jīng)統(tǒng)計(jì)的百分之八十選票里，布什一下子了五萬(wàn)票。首先是?？怂闺娨暰W(wǎng)絡(luò)算出戈?duì)栆呀?jīng)不可能追上來(lái)了，所以他們宣布了對(duì)這個(gè)州的預(yù)測(cè)。也許是相互競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的緣故，其它電視臺(tái)很快地也跟了上來(lái)?？墒牵麄冞@次還是太急躁了。數(shù)以千計(jì)的戈?duì)栔С终叩倪x票很快追上了第一批布勞沃德郡的布什支持者的選票。布什的票數(shù)很快從五萬(wàn)張降到二百二十四張。
我說(shuō)了，我不知道我們昨晚的做法造成了什么影響。其實(shí)，影響還是有的。這就是從一些國(guó)家的首都發(fā)來(lái)的倉(cāng)促賀電。像我們一樣，這些國(guó)家的元首在晚些時(shí)候收回了他們的話。
敢賭一把嗎？
在經(jīng)歷了歷混亂的大選后，贏得白宮的爭(zhēng)斗還繼續(xù)。這不僅僅在華府埋下了不協(xié)調(diào)的伏筆，也給市場(chǎng)帶來(lái)不穩(wěn)定的因素。股市本來(lái)就因?yàn)樵鲩L(zhǎng)減慢的經(jīng)濟(jì)和關(guān)于未來(lái)經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)緩慢的警告而提心吊膽的，而大選政治更讓股市這一周受到重創(chuàng)。在戈?duì)栃紩?huì)支持在佛羅里達(dá)州采取法律行動(dòng)后，星期四下午一點(diǎn)半，道瓊斯工業(yè)指數(shù)急速下跌。
美國(guó)的大選結(jié)果還沒(méi)有后的結(jié)果，而搖擺不定的中美關(guān)系對(duì)新政府來(lái)說(shuō)仍然是很重要的。在香港的美國(guó)共和黨人說(shuō)，中美關(guān)系有著至關(guān)重要的戰(zhàn)略性地位，即使是喬治·W.布什當(dāng)選也不會(huì)改變的。
在香港的美國(guó)人：（如果布什上臺(tái)的話） 報(bào)稅回扣將達(dá)一點(diǎn)三兆美元，美國(guó)富裕的百分之一的人中將獲得其中的百分之四十三。早先達(dá)成的政府財(cái)政預(yù)算平衡的協(xié)議也將失效……
在中國(guó)進(jìn)入國(guó)際貿(mào)易組織的前夕，商界認(rèn)為布什當(dāng)選會(huì)對(duì)自由貿(mào)易更為有利。
沒(méi)有什么大不了的
在美國(guó)，又有更多關(guān)于大選投票違規(guī)行為的指控。新的事件來(lái)自威斯康星州。在那里，戈?duì)柋炔际擦Ф嗥薄?BR> 有十幾個(gè)密爾沃基的馬凱特大學(xué)學(xué)生公開(kāi)夸耀，說(shuō)自己在上星期的投票中投了不止一票。
學(xué)生：我想，不知有沒(méi)有可能再去投一票，所以我就又去投了一票。那天，我自己結(jié)果投了四票。
無(wú)人知道究竟是那位候選人得到這些多投的票，但學(xué)生說(shuō)投票站的官員并沒(méi)有采取什么有效措施來(lái)防止類似情況的發(fā)生。
學(xué)生編輯：沒(méi)人檢查學(xué)生的身份證，也沒(méi)有人查他們的居住地證明。
米高·麥格勞是學(xué)生報(bào)紙《馬凱特論壇》的編輯，他說(shuō)他的手下做了一個(gè)調(diào)查，發(fā)現(xiàn)有一百四十一個(gè)學(xué)生承認(rèn)那天投票不止。這種行為是一項(xiàng)重罪。
學(xué)生編輯：他們覺(jué)得很愕然?！爸刈铮窟@叫什么話？我只不過(guò)是投了兩次票而已，這有什么大不了的。"
戴夫·萊特曼：先把玩笑放到一邊，我怕的是這個(gè)。我真正關(guān)心的這個(gè)：如果他們不停地要求重點(diǎn)選票，如果我們不結(jié)束沒(méi)完沒(méi)了的選票重點(diǎn)，如果重新點(diǎn)票不結(jié)束的話，我擔(dān)心的是早晚一定會(huì)有一個(gè)贏家。這就是讓我真正感到害怕的。這件事不能再這樣繼續(xù)下去……
第一課：了解你的國(guó)家
在全國(guó)，許多學(xué)生也前所未有的關(guān)注著這場(chǎng)總統(tǒng)大選。
學(xué)生甲：我覺(jué)得要是選舉不代表大多數(shù)人的意愿的話就沒(méi)有意思。
學(xué)生乙：我關(guān)心的是我們已成了世界上遭恥笑的對(duì)象。
因此，學(xué)生問(wèn)道：我們的制度出了什么問(wèn)題？
老師：如果我們對(duì)投票程序失去了信心，這個(gè)國(guó)家就很成問(wèn)題了。
有些學(xué)生搞不懂選舉人制度，也不明白為什么候選人在普選中落敗但卻能后勝出。不過(guò)，這次千載難逢的選舉給他們上了難忘的一課。
學(xué)生丙：杰弗遜和其他人在設(shè)立選舉人制度的時(shí)候，他們從來(lái)沒(méi)有想過(guò)會(huì)出現(xiàn)這種情況。而現(xiàn)在這種事情發(fā)生了，真是不可思議。
在布魯克林的帕克大學(xué)院，學(xué)生今天模仿國(guó)會(huì)進(jìn)行辯論，他們終投票取消選舉人制度，十一比三。
精彩的還在后頭……
十一月十九日
現(xiàn)在的情況簡(jiǎn)單來(lái)說(shuō)是這樣。雙方的律師就明天佛羅里達(dá)州高法院的聽(tīng)證提出訴訟。同時(shí)，手工計(jì)票在佛羅里達(dá)的兩個(gè)郡繼續(xù)進(jìn)行。明天，會(huì)有第三個(gè)郡開(kāi)始手工票。雙方為是否應(yīng)該拒絕其中的一些缺席選票而吵得不可開(kāi)交，缺席選票已把喬治·W.布什的微弱優(yōu)勢(shì)增加到九百三十票。而佛羅里達(dá)州的選票數(shù)目還沒(méi)有被官方公開(kāi)證實(shí)?，F(xiàn)在重要的是明天佛羅里達(dá)州的聽(tīng)證會(huì)。我們也從這里開(kāi)始。請(qǐng)聽(tīng)美國(guó)廣播公司艾琳·海斯在塔拉哈西的報(bào)道。
雙方今天匆匆忙忙地趕在期限前提交各自的訴訟要點(diǎn)。數(shù)百頁(yè)訴訟文件的要點(diǎn)都圍繞一個(gè)問(wèn)題：佛羅里達(dá)州州務(wù)卿凱瑟琳·哈里斯上星期在堅(jiān)持接受人工計(jì)票的后期究竟有沒(méi)有濫用權(quán)利。明天，這些都將由有七個(gè)成員組成的佛羅里達(dá)州高法院決定。幾乎所有的法官都是民主黨人，但很多認(rèn)識(shí)他們的共和黨人也說(shuō)，他們是不會(huì)輕易被政治左右的。