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Article: To resilient Americans, the divisive election will soon be history.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 13, 2000
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S. Boyd
WASHINGTON _ OK, everybody: It's over.
George W. Bush is going to be our next president. Al Gore will find something useful to do. The rest of us can get on with our lives and our Christmas shopping.
This huge, complicated, prosperous country has endured much worse travails than the bizarre election of 2000 and recovered quite nicely.
"This was not a national trauma _ not at all," said Charles Jones, a retired professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Once we swim our way out of the sea of chads, we'll leave it behind us rather quickly."
Let's put it in perspective. Unlike the horrors of ...