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Iowa may have only seven electoral votes, but in a tight contest, it's an important battleground. (Al Gore won the state in 2000 by less than 1%.) So residents of Davenport were hardly fazed when PRESIDENT BUSH and JOHN KERRY showed up for rallies on the same day, just blocks apart. The crooks in town weren't fazed either. With the cops preoccupied, three banks were robbed...
...When the NRA stood silent in 1992 and 1996, the Democrats won handily. The man who won those elections, Bill Clinton, maintains that on the pecking order of determining factors in the 2000 Bush victory, the NRA stands next to Ralph Nader, behind only the Supreme Court, potentially costing Gore critical states such as Arkansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and New Hampshire...
...Take it from me--every vote counts." AL GORE, former Vice President and Democratic nominee for President in 2000, speaking earlier at the convention...
...populist temptation--to frame a campaign as a contest between the "people" and the "powerful"--has never had much success because it is rooted in resentment, even when it is camouflaged with a smile, as it was by John Edwards last Wednesday night and, less felicitously, by Al Gore in the 2000 campaign. The idea of an expansive, inclusive United States of America--a vision presented elegantly on Tuesday night by Barack Obama, the Kenyan-Kansan Senate hopeful from Illinois--has always been the straightest path to the country's heart, as Bill Clinton proved in 1992. These days...
...Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby or Kubrick's The Shining," says former Fox studio boss Bill Mechanic, "some of the best horror movies had a certain elegance to them." These films tell you that what you don't know or notice can hurt you. They are to the gore fests as romantic dramas are to porn. They are about mood, atmosphere, the notion that death is everywhere and inevitable...