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Previously on Fiasco.

The closest election in a generation.

I called it at 7.52 p.m.

It was all downhill after that moment.

Some strange, unusual things happening in Florida.

Florida comes out of the Gore column.

Florida goes Bush. The presidency is Bush.

That would be something if the networks managed to blow it twice in one night.

In some ways, you can win or lose an election based on what the TV say.

Someone find out for me whether the Secretary of State is a Democrat or Republican.

Who would have ever thought you'd be on a plane heading to Florida to start, a recount that could determine who the president is?

The 2000 election wasn't really Jackie Winchester's problem.

Four years earlier, it would have been.

Back then, she was the supervisor of elections for Palm Beach County, Florida,

a job that put her in charge of making sure that election day always ran as smoothly as possible.

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