NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: And now we're on to Iowa, where Al Gore was called election night by a very slim margin of only about 4,300 votes. Officials hope to finish today counting all the absentee ballots and ballots that were challenged Election Day. CNN's Jeff Flock following that progress from Des Moines -- Jeff.</s>JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Natalie, still not over here in Iowa, either. We're here in Polk County. In rooms like this all across Iowa, the canvassing boards have been meeting yesterday and today. Today they're finishing their work. As of yesterday, Governor Bush picked up about a thousand votes statewide as a result of the canvass. That makes the margin in Iowa about 4,000 votes. So they're very, very interested in how that comes down. I just talked to the state party chair a little while ago. He is sending Republican representatives to each of these canvassing boards to try to glean for the information, look for anomalies, try to gain some more votes. They still want to win Iowa regardless of how Florida comes out for two reasons. One, if Bush winds up losing Florida, this becomes their B strategy, but even if he wins Florida, they point out that it only gives him a two electoral vote margin and they'd like to have more than that, so they want to try to flip Iowa around. There could be a recount call any time in the next three days. We'll continue to watch it. Jeff Flock, CNN, reporting live from Polk County in Iowa.
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