Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...itself, but the vicarious thrill in knowing that you had a hand in dumping AI D'Amato or in electing Jesse "The Body" Ventura. A voter watching the returns come in on election night is like a football fan watching the Super Bowl, except the voter knows he actually helped the team...
Also, unlike the results of Super Bowl, what happens on election day actually matters beyond the locker room celebration. It's no mystery why the government spends so much money on Social Security and Medicare while millions of younger Americans go without health care--the fogeys vote and the young'uns don't. Not convinced? Consider this: if every college-age citizen voted consistently, don't you think some enterprising candidates would start reconsidering that misguided minimum drinking...
...sure, traditional sports retain huge audiences and monstrous marketing clout; the Super Bowl is watched by almost a billion people every year. But the era of the three-sport nation may be coming to a close just as surely as the era of the three networks. Experts forecast a future of a thousand TV channels, which will be looking for even more sports programming...
...exchange for public funding have been ruled constitutional. Short of a constitutional amendment or a reversal of court rulings, the best way to prevent candidates from financing their own campaigns is to set public funding levels high enough so that doing so is unrealistic for all but the super-wealthy...
...Packers vs. Patriots, 1997 Super Bowl: Marshfield, Mass., Mayor Francis put up a mug, book, lobsters and piece of a tree from the Daniel Webster estate. Marshfield, Wis., Mayor Daniels offered sawdust, mugs, bratwurst, 13 cow pies...