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Byline: G. Robert Hillman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ Vice President Al Gore, exhausted but confident that the presidency was within his grasp, returned home to Tennessee Tuesday to vote and await his fate at the polls.
Campaigning through the night in the pivotal state of Florida, Gore assured a midnight crowd of thousands in Miami's South Beach that he had "no doubt whatsoever" of victory.
"The moon is over Miami," he said. "From sea to shining sea, from Miami to Los Angeles, where this general election campaign began, from coast to coast and border to border, Americans are coming together and making a very powerful decision that we are not going to allow ourselves to go back to the policies of the past.
"We're going forward to the policies of the future," the Democratic presidential nominee declared.
A few hours later, in a pre-dawn meeting with nurses at a hospital in Tampa, Fla., he…