Yeah, and Your Elections Are, Like, So Much Cooler

Notebook is outraged. Yes, outraged! Foreigners dare to portray our 2000 presidential election as somehow flawed. Pot calling the kettle black, we say.

FRANCE Liberation: "America awoke Wednesday morning to discover it had no President-elect, and that the Nov. 7 vote was mired in a mixture of banana-republic travesty and suspense worthy of a World Cup final settled by penalty kicks."

BRITAIN the Mirror: "The simplest thing might be for President Clinton to be asked to stay on for another four years. But the way things are in the States at the moment, the letter asking him to do that would...

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