That’s just not how they think.

What it shows is what we’ve been saying all along — there is no question that the majority of people on Election Day believed they left the booth voting for Al Gore.

They’ve spent a week trying to exclude the votes of men and women in uniform, police, fire, nurses, doctors. Now, their newfound dedication to the counting of ballots, though welcome, seems a little off.

It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal.

Bush has solved a very short-term problem by filing the chief justice position [with a choice] that probably will get confirmed very easily. But he has set in motion a dynamic that will make the...