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...committee, the department’s inconvenient truth is that advising is negligible at best and that a significant effort has to be made to get attention from anyone in the department. The head of ESPP is Pfoho Housmaster Jim McCarthy, study break enforcer and science advisor to Al Gore??s own Inconvenient Truth. Other professors include Paul Hoffman and Daniel Schrag, the two leading proponents of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis, which proposes that an ice age that took place in the Neoproterozoic was so severe that the Earth’s oceans...
Later, her husband Matt joined us, and our Matt pulled him a chair. The conversation turned to politics. The older Matt said he was a Democrat, and Andrew asked why Al Gore??s home state had gone to Bush. “Well, you know, there’s a ton of rednecks here in Tennessee,” he replied. “And after 9/11, they were spoilin’ for a fight.” Andrew nodded. “But now—what? two years later?—they?...
...Colleagues I have talked to are mostly disappointed but I wouldn’t say shocked,” said Government Associate Professor Barry C. Burden. “There is less Monday morning quarterbacking going on today. In 2000, it looked like it was Gore??s election to lose. I don’t think that people now are trying to sense what Kerry did wrong. In this election, the voters spoke and their message came out strong...
...example, Harvard’s own Shorenstein Center examined voters’ knowledge of then-governor Bush’s and Al Gore??s positions and found that on the average issue only 38 percent of respondents could accurately identify where the candidate stood, while 16 percent answered incorrectly and 46 percent admitted ignorance. Other studies have shown that 70 percent of Americans can’t even identify their senators or congressperson, let alone tell you how they stand on the issues. Voting a party line doesn’t seem to help either; when asked...
...code every time they get a new poll. My home state, New Mexico, was the closest state in the union in 2000. Late on election night, Bush was winning the state by 4 votes when a retired engineer noticed a mathematical error that had lopped 500 votes off Al Gore??s total. When the error was fixed and all the ballots were counted, Gore had won the state by 366 votes. If Gore had claimed one other state—say, Tennessee—he would be President right now, and 366 New Mexicans and a retired engineer...