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...someone who spent 23 years at ABC and then went to FOX News when it was a nascent operation, you've been a major part of both a mainstream media outlet - perceived by many as having a liberal bias - and then at a cable powerhouse perceived by many to have a conservative bias. Behind the scenes, is there a fundamentally different approach to news gathering...
...Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has spent millions on ads in the state, including a series of successfully satirical TV spots featuring two old men in rocking chairs arguing over Dole's age, her low effectiveness ratings as a Senator, and how frequently she has voted with George W. Bush. "The DSCC ads have been devastating," says Democratic Congressman Brad Miller. "They have not been nasty, they've been light and funny, but they've made the point that Elizabeth Dole has not been an effective Senator." Though freshman rarely achieve much, Dole has left a fairly shallow impression...
...elections expertise and looked all but clueless when the chads hit the fan. Worse, her pledge of impartiality seemed laughable given that she was the George W. Bush campaign's Florida chairwoman. Browning, who like Crist has proved to be a more bipartisan operator than his predecessors, spent 26 years as a county elections supervisor, was president of Florida's Association of Elections Supervisors and was one of the state's point persons for the federal Help America Vote...
...voting machine can also make or break a polling place. In places with so-called open-face machines (in which all of the options are arrayed in one large display), voting can take each person just a few minutes. In 2004, Ohio voters, using open-face electronic machines, spent two to five minutes voting. But those machines are expensive to buy and transport. This Tuesday, it will take voters 7 to 13 minutes, Allen estimates, because of new voting machines that are not open-face. Voters must scroll down these screens to reach the bottom of the options, and that...
...trainees spent two hours listening to a truly astounding list of tasks they would be responsible for handling. Nothing less than the full weight of democracy would rest on their shoulders...