'SAND IN THE GEARS OF GOVERNMENT'

摘要

After two years of campaigning, a heart-stopping election night photo finish, and a 5-week legal and public-relations battle, George W. Bush is indeed going to be the next President of the U.S. Now all he has to do is try to govern. With rancorous disputes over Florida votes still echoing, Bush will have to work with a bare five-vote majority in the House and a Senate deadlocked at 50-50. Lawmakers already have their eyes on the 2002 election, and voters are deeply divided over what they really want from the Capitol. "It is going to be exactly what the public wants," says Steven E. Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn: "More sand in the gears of government, grinding at a very meager pace."