The close Presidential election and the importance of just a few votes in Florida reminds me of the recent Olympics where races were won in split second timings. Granted those races were a lot shorter than this drawn out ballot counting. If they had known how close it would have been in so many states, would Gore and Bush have done the election equivalent of shaving their hair and wearing skin-tight hooded suits to squeeze out every last vote? Bush took last Sunday off while Gore kept going. What extra word spoken, hand shaken, baby kissed, issue emphasized would make enough of a difference?