And as I type this it rebounds to 454 points. Still, the second worse trading day of the year. Second worse trading day since 9/11. The DOW is now at 10,609.66. Which means during the whole Bush Presidency, over the last eight years, the DOW has actually lost 50 points.
What…..what is that…..an alarm clock….the buzzing…..it is 8 am. November 9, 2000. Ah, the morning news.
MATT LAUER: “Vice President Gore has been elected the Next President of the United States, after carrying all the contested battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida. Indeed, we all knew how this election was going to turn out when Florida was called for the Vice President at 7:45 p.m. Eastern time. ”
KATIE COURIC: “Gosh, one of these years we will have an election that is a nailbitter, a close, drawn out race where we all have to stay up to the early morning hours to find out who won.”
MATT LAUER: “Maybe one day, but not this year. The public clearly likes the Democrats now. In three months, it is President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
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