1.   And as the recount battle has moved primarily to the courts, there has been a sudden need for election-law pundits who can explain complicated rulings.

2.   As split down the middle as the voters were, the election was not a clash between political extremes, though extreme partisans have dominated the post-election recount battle.

3.   But his postmortem of the recount battle, which hits bookstores at the end of March, will actually suggest a pox on both houses.

4.   He tries to make sense of the complex recount battle and finds fault in both camps.

5.   Democrat Gore is locked in a vote recount battle with Republican George W. Bush in Florida.

6.   He was also called to Florida by Baker to help in the ballot recount battle.

7.   Much of his team is getting its first break since the long campaign and the exhausting Florida recount battle.

8.   The Justice Department is swapping one veteran lawyer of the Florida recount battle for another in its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft.

9.   The region is far removed, geographically and politically, from South Florida, where much of the recount battle was waged.

10.   Vice President Al Gore and Sen. Joe Lieberman, joined by their wives, escaped the tensions of the Florida recount battle late Saturday by going to the movies.