I find it difficult to come out too strongly on the "what should Janet do?" question. On one hand, there is part of me that wishes she would just concede, let McBride begin his campaign against Jeb, under the justification that she should just do what is best, in my opinion, for the state of Florida. But, that line of thinking is eerily similar to the media-pushed meme during the election 2000 debacle. At some level it isn't about Reno, it isn't about McBride, and it isn't even about maximizing the chances of beating Jeb. It is, once again, about taking Democracy and the notion that we should "count all the votes" seriously. Sure it is just a primary, and sure this might (or not) make it that much harder to beat Jeb come November, but much as I found calls for Gore to "move on for the good of the country" inappropriate and disturbing, I feel the same about calls for Reno to do the same. Once again we have a "presumptive winner" in a close race with massive election problems and still uncounted ballots, and once again we should ask ourselves how we would react if Reno was the "presumptive winner."
