September 11, 2002-The first anniversary of the terrorist attacks is marked around the world in various fashions, from playing Mozart's Requiem, to prayer, to reading the names of the victims, and statements from the World Trade Center site, or Ground Zero. Nirvana, for their part, mark it with a concert in Helsinki. Their cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World" makes its way back into the setlist after seven years of being shelved.
October 3, 2002-The full text of the Cleland-Lee Bill is posted online, starting with Senator Cleland's reelection campaign site. The rules for a presidential revote are described as follows:
-Congress can call for a revote anytime between the general election of one campaign and the primary season of another, with only the Democrat and Republican candidates on the ballot, and one four-hour debate a week before the day of the revote.
-If the contest is between two candidates that are not currently in the White House, the usual rules regarding Presidential terms apply to whomever the winner is.
-If an incumbent wins the revote and is in their first term, they still have to stand for reelection, should they want a second term.
-If the challenger to a first-term incumbent wins the revote, the new President can choose to either win a term of their own in the next scheduled election, or stay on through the election following, but cannot be elected to a second term. This would of course mean that if a Bush-Gore revote were to be held, and Gore won, he could either stand for a term of his own in 2004, or agree to stay on through 2009, but not run for another term in the 2008 election.
Pundits and the public debate their feelings about the revote bill.