No one would blame the people of Florida if they were starting to get a little snippy, as Al Gore might put it. First they provided--and endured--the superabundant drama of Elian Gonzalez. Now all the frustrations of one of the closest elections in American history have made a landing on Palm Beach. Florida is the center of a struggle over the operations of American democracy at every level, from the wisdom of the Electoral College to the arrangement of punch holes on a paper ballot. Fidel Castro's Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, even suggested last week that a new election in...
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