CNN Election 2000 Online News Interviews and Chat Transcripts

"When you're living through history, you don't always appreciate it on a day-to-day basis. Only later, in years to come, will we probably fully appreciate the drama that we endured." -- Wolf Blitzer ELECTION LINKS: Results VIDEO  Latest video  Speeches/ads  Video Search Discussion Post Election Timeline Legal Issues Fact check Florida Who's Who Previous Close Election 2000:   Other close races  Elections States Battlegrounds Pres. Bios Where They Stand Poll Archive Rep. Convention Dem. Convention AllPolitics   Online Firsts Election Reflections Election 2000: The Decision The Florida Recount Election Night Countdown to Election Night Presidential Debates Democratic National Convention Republican National Convention RELATED STORIES, SITES       ONLINE FIRSTS Vice President Al Gore, an online news interview with a presidential candidate Governor George W. Bush gives first online news interview Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on the 2000 Democratic Convention Fmr. Secretary of State George Shultz   MORE ELECTION REFLECTIONS: "What I'll probably remember most is getting a call from a source that Al Gore has phoned the governor and retracted his concession. I was so stunned I asked the source to repeat the sentence three times!" -- Candy Crowley   Candy Crowley Wolf Blitzer Larry King Roger Cossack Judy Woodruff Bill Hemmer Bernard Shaw ELECTION 2000: THE DECISION "My reading of the data says that while Bush certainly has a challenge, it is not hugely different than the challenge that would come after any election." -- Gallup Polls' Frank Newport   CNN's David Cardwell on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on Florida recounts CNN's Patty Davis on the Gore campaign after the Supreme Court decision CNN's Tony Clark on the Bush campaigns reaction to election developments CNN's Bill Schneider on election aftermath Former Bush speechwriter Daniel McGroarty Joe Lockhart evaluates Vice President Al Gore's concession MORE THE FLORIDA RECOUNT: "We are in a new political galaxy. We have never been here before, the Courts have never been here before, the Congress has never been here before and no one alive has ever seen anything like this before." -- Bill Schneider   CNN's Bernard Shaw: Election 2000 unresolved Greta Van Susteren: Legal and political issues in Florida recount Gore Supporter Ed Rendell and Bush Supporter Jim Nicholson on the latest on the recount in Florida Newsweek's Kenneth Auchincloss on the election behind the scenes Time Europe’s Don Morrison: the world's view of the U.S. presidential election CNN election analyst David Cardwell on the legal issues in Florida Harvard Law School's Heather Gerken: the legal battles in the presidential election Lance deHaven-Smith on the issues before the Florida Supreme Court First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams on cameras in the Supreme Court Georgetown law professor Viet Dinh: the Supreme Court and the presidential election CNN's Bill Hemmer on presidential election developments in Florida Wolf Blitzer assesses the current Washington perspective on the presidential election Florida Institute of Government's Lance deHaven Smith: Florida’s election standoff MORE ELECTION NIGHT: "Both parties will have to reexamine what worked and what didn't -- to reshape for 2004. Demographics have changed; the U.S. political map is no longer the same." -- Bill Press   Political Analyst Farai Chideya on Election 2000: A race too close to call CNN Crossfire's Bill Press and The Wall Street Journal's John Fund on Election 2000 results Crossfire's Mary Matalin and Mike McCurry on the presidential election results CNN's Chris Black on the view from Capitol Hill MORE COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION NIGHT: "Bush is going to...keep projecting the image of optimism, portray himself as Ronald Reagan, Jr. Gore probably is going to have to take a chance, attempt to make a splash, but that could also backfire. It's going to be worth watching!" -- Bob Woodward   Bob Woodward of the Washington Post on Election 2000: The race for votes Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg on the top Senate races Campaigns and Elections Magazine's Ron Faucheux on the top house races Erica Terry & Gideon Yago on the youth vote Jay P. Greene on education issues in the 2000 elections Kathryn Olson on Social Security Martha Burk and Aileen Hernandez on the impact of the women's vote in election 2000 The Miami Herald's Tom Fiedler: Florida, election battleground state MORE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES: "Each candidate is going to try and look as down home comfortable as he can but, most importantly, each candidate is going to try not to look ridiculous." -- Bob Franken   Political Analyst Hal Bruno on the first presidential debate John Fund and David Corn on the 2000 Vice Presidential Debate Headline News political analyst Michele Mitchell on the second presidential debate CNN's Bill Schneider analyzes the third presidential debate Gallup's Frank Newport on the viewer's reaction to the third presidential debate MORE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: "The real test comes after Gore speaks. He needs to swing for the fences, because he is currently weaker than he should be among virtually every Democratic constituency." -- Frank Sesno   Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on the 2000 Democratic Convention Former President Jimmy Carter on the 2000 Democratic Convention Senator Bob Graham on 2000 Democratic Convention Sec. Donna Shalala on the 2000 Democratic Convention Sec. Andrew Cuomo on the 2000 Democratic Convention Former Vice President Walter Mondale on the 2000 Democratic Convention Governor Michael Dukakis on the 2000 Democratic Convention MORE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION: "The mood of this convention is very positive. The Republicans, including moderates and conservatives, all smell victory in November." -- Wolf Blitzer   George Shultz on international policy issues facing the presidency Former White House Press Secretary Michael McCurry Sen. Orrin Hatch from the 2000 GOP Convention RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson from the 2000 GOP Convention NRCC Chairman Tom Davis from the 2000 GOP Convention Ken Starr on the Supreme Court, the independent counsel and George W. Bush MORE RELATED IN-DEPTH SECTIONS: In-Depth: Reviewing the Vote In-Depth: Democratic National Cnvention In-Depth: Republican National Convention In-Depth: Democracy in America RELATED SITES: Supreme Court of the United States Florida Election Cases - U.S. Supreme Court Florida Legislature Electoral College Republican National Committee The Democratic National Committee Note: Pages will open in a new browser window External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive.  Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web