* This race is shakier than cafeteria Jello.
* He swept through the South like a tornado through a trailer park.
* Don't bet the trailer money on it yet.
* It's a ding dong battle back and forth.
* Look at that. Can't get a cigarette paper between'em.
* His chances are slim right now and if he doesn't carry Florida, slim will have left town.
* We said earlier in the evening at one point that Governor Bush would probably be as mad as a rained-on rooster.
* This will show you how tight it is - it's spandex tight.
* The polls have been veering and wobbling so much that neither NASA nor the Russian Cosmodrome could track 'em in some cases.
* If you're disgusted with us, frankly I don't blame ya.
* I think you would likelier see a hippopotamus run through this room than see George Bush appoint Ralph Nader to the Cabinet.
* Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.
* It's cardiac-arrest time in this presidential campaign.
* It's too early to say he has the whip hand.
* It's about as complicated as a wiring diagram to some dynamo.
* This election swings like one of those pendulum things.
* Al Gore has his back to the wall, shirt tails on fire with this race in Florida.
* Smelling salts for all Democrats please.
* This race is tight like a too-small bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach.
* We've lived by the crystal ball and learned to eat so much broken glass tonight that we're in critical condition.
* You would sooner find a tall talking broccoli stick to offer to mow your lawn for free.
* The big burrito.
* This thing is as tight as the rusted lugnuts on a '55 Ford.
* Maybe you can bring some perspective on this, we're plum out.
* When the going gets weird, anchor men punt.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_RatherI won't know who to watch this year.