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...would be paid. It was clear very early that the race was close, but when Florida was called for Gore shortly before 8 p.m., despondency fell over the Bush clan. With tears in his eyes, brother Jeb, Florida's Governor, apologized to George W. for letting him down. Other battleground states--Michigan, Pennsylvania--were put into the Gore column as well, and the outlook went from gray to black. But there was something curious here: Bush's people were getting numbers from Florida that showed their candidate slightly ahead, not behind, and finally Bush went on network television from...
...group was their musical choice. Whether it was the rap blaring out of a low-riding Honda Civic or the twanging guitars pouring out of a Chevy pick-up's windows, individuals and groups often used music as a projection of their identity. School dances always became the musical battleground, with half the attendees refusing to dance to a particular song or musical style. Insecure teenagers used the stability of a musical genre as a defining, constant characteristic of their still nebulous, gray self-conceptions. Therefore, when their musical preferences were challenged or criticized, they reacted explosively...
Shortly before 8 p.m. the networks announced that Gore had taken Florida. The battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania soon fell as well, and every anchor became a math teacher, showing how it was increasingly difficult for Bush to find the 270 electoral votes he would need to win. All the networks were reading the data from the Voter News Service consortium and grinding it through their own analysis to try to be the first to declare a winner. Little things can make a difference when every minute counts, and what they didn't know was that...
Turns out I packed up and moved to New York City too soon. In its final days, this year's presidential campaign finally got good--which is to say it got bad. In battleground states like Michigan and Florida, with presidential and local contests tight as pre-washed jeans, campaigns and interest groups flooded radio and TV with ads and filled voters' answering machines with celebrity-voiced automated phone calls. And the best part was that they went negative, big time...
...Shortly before 8 p.m. the networks announced that Gore had taken Florida. The battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania soon fell as well, and every anchor became a math teacher, showing how it was increasingly difficult for Bush to find the 270 electoral votes he would need to win. All the networks were reading the data from the Voter News Service consortium and grinding it through their own analysis to try to be the first to declare a winner. Little things can make a difference when every minute counts, and what they didn't know was that...