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Title
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Oh, waiter! One order of crow! : inside the strangest presidential election finish in American history
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Description
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CNN's political and media analyst examines the 2000 campaign and all the unexpected results.
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Identifier
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952347
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399147764
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Creator
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Greenfield, Jeff
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Source
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Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection
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Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.
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Catalog record
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Language
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eng
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Date
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2001
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Program air date: July 22, 2001
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Publisher
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
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Text
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Transcription of Annotations
Notes from front endpapers: ""A generation of jaded coverage had taught us to assume the worst of everyone in public life". - How often do you get phantasies of what you're really like to say on TV? - Froggy the Gremlin moments. - Jack Quinn / Ed Gillespie - [?] partners. - Public institutions: familiarity breeds contempt - Supreme Court. - Cynicism of politicians, press and popular culture. - Clinton demonstrated contempt for the office literally and symbolically, p. 279. - Exit polling: something dispiriting about looking at polls after lunch, p. 100. - Why all the speeches at conventions you say no one watches? - Bill Bradley; John McCain; Gore - a big government guy. - Casey / Dane wrote for National Lampoon. - Law degree. - Your friendship with Joe Lieberman. - Nightline. - Robert F. Kennedy, 34 years. - Gore believed in the "malicious deity" explanation for what happened to them, p. 259." - Notes from half title page: "Questions trying to answer, p. 23: 1) Big Govt. 2) The gender gap 3) The social issues 4) Was it the economy, stupid? 5) The Clinton factor 6) The Nader factor 7) What kind of leader was the country looking for?" -- Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. - Examples: p. 83: "CNN and every other network knew the truth: The exit polls from Florida had overestimated Gore's actual vote total." - p. 204: "Regular churchgoers went for Bush by twenty-seven points; those who never went to church went for Gore by twenty-nine points. Gun owners went for Bush by twenty-five points; non-gun owners went for Gore by nineteen points." - p. 212: "At root, the Gore campaign was on the defensive from beginning to end. Why? First, all the critical political machinery was in Republican hands. Second, in the end, the Republicans wanted Bush to win more than the Democrats wanted Gore to win. ... Third, ... the public never had more than a spectator's interest in the outcome." - p. 231: ""I hate to say this to you, ..., but I feel the campaign itself was so superficial, disappointing, mundane, that in a funny way, given the way the debates went, and the personalities, I almost thought it was the perfect scripted ending. It fit."
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Subject
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"Presidents--United States--Election--2000."
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Relation
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Original Booknotes interview
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Rights
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