With a potentially era-defining US election a little over a month away, the timing of Recount, an HBO drama about Gore vs Bush that manages to turn 36 days of legal bog-hopping and electoral arcana in to a riveting thriller, couldn't be more pertinent. Among the various previously unknown, and probably uncared for, facts that were presented to a watching world from Florida in the 36 chaotic days that followed the 2000 US election was the fact that the plural of chad is "chad". Hanging chads, (or chad), swinging chads, dimpled and pimpled chads laid siege to the lexicon as it became apparent, in perhaps the most poignant farce Western democracy has yet devised, that the fate of the free world would come down to a protracted legal slugfest and a faulty hole-punch. ...
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