l Gore and George W. Bush) have allowed their campaign organizations to engage in continuing campaigns to convince the public of fairness of their positions. Deploying lawyers, spokesmen and campaign managers this way may satisfy the appetite to fight, but not the responsibility to reconcile a serious national dilemma.@ This statement alone displays that Panetta has a problem with the way the candidates and their campaigns were behaving. He goes on to say that having a national election of over 100 million votes boil down to a few hundred Acontroversial@ ballots in Florida is outrageous. He also feels that Aa scorched-earth litigation process to the bitter end@ makes sense to the lawyers and the campaign officials it makes no sense for the nation. It was also a
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