>Oh, I know, and you know why? A majority of the public thought they were on a witchhunt and being unfair. As a group, we don't like unfairness very much and I think the same might be the fall out here.

Agreed, "fairness" is very critical to the American public, and the swing voters in particular. The question in this "Election That Wouldn't Die" is: who is on the better side of the fairness issue here? I don't know the answer to that, Gore had it working for a while but has pushed the envelope a bit too far now, perhaps.

But I will say on the topic of fairness & future elections: there may be a fairly deep pool of latent resentment over the fact that the clear popular vote winner may not be the actual winner in this election. IMO this is a major fairness issue to the public, if not practically useful just now due to our rules-of-law. And this resentment may be the ultimate salvation for the Dems down the road, if they are perceived as being on some sort of witchhunt currently.