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Election Day
7:50 p.m.- Press Declairs Al Gore president.
9:30 p.m- Florida begins to look more uncertain as the vote totals accumulate more in favor of Texas Gov. George Bush. -
Next Day
2:15 A.M.- Some estimate Bush leading in the votes by 50,000.
2:30 A.M.- Gore calls Bush to concede the election. -
2 days later
New Mexico, with five electoral votes, is retracted from Gore; the state reverts to too close to call. Oregon is called for Gore. -
Bush has bush
George W. Bush heads to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he will spend most of the month in blissfull ignorance. -
Idaho
The Bush team says they will not seek a recount of votes in Iowa. -
Dick C.
Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney is admitted to the hospital with chest pain It is later revealed to be a mild heart attack. Doctors operate and insert a stent in one of his arteries that showed signs of narrowing. -
Gore
Al Gore files an election contest action under Florida Election Code section 102.168, challenging the vote counts in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, and Nassau counties; the case is assigned to Judge Sanders Sauls.