The Gore campaign clearly wants to start setting the terms of the policy debate after several weeks of unflattering stories of disarray within the campaign,

The Gore campaign wants the will of the people to be reflected accurately and completely, which will be guaranteed by a manual recount, while the Bush campaign is trying to do everything possible to stop that from happening,

The Gore campaign has got to be worried.

Certainly, over the last several weeks, this has clearly been a top down mandate with very little faculty feedback or faculty involvement.

Now everybody has several, or wants several, or is trying to recruit several.

The comments from the Gore campaign this afternoon accelerated the selling.