Winston Churchill once famously said about Americans that we can always becountedontodo the right thing, after we have exhausted all other possibilities.
Atwater saw Junior as a job-insurance policy and a hot line to the candidate, someone who could becountedonto help sway the Vice President todo what had tobe done to win.
After you do, and have satisfied yourself that maybe those who you have countedonto inform your own opinion might be misleading you ask yourself why they would do that.
But the election commission now says a decision on what todo about the spoiled ballots will be taken after all other votes are counted, our correspondent reports.
Lawyers who will be paid only upon a successful outcome can becountedonto filter out claims that lack merit before they evolve into actual litigation, and the government itself will do so too.