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From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 116, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe presidential election of 2000 stands at best as a paradox, at worst as a scandal, of American democracy. Democrat Albert Gore won the most votes, a half million more than his Republican opponent George W. Bush, but...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 12, Issue 2)It didn't end with Florida Now that the 2000 presidential contest is finally over, let's try to figure out how we reached the point where national elections are determined by a cadre of lawyers and judges. And more...
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From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 113, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMedia coverage regarding Bob Dole's age and health was most prominent during the 1996 presidential elections. Despite the increased longevity of Americans, the inability of presidents to finish their term of office is...
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From:Insight Turkey (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLike all long political years, the year 2014 did not begin on January 1st; rather, 2014politically began at the end of May with the Taksim events. Nevertheless, the year may end on an optimistic note. It could be said...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 89, Issue 1)The presidential election had been settled only a week when news organizations started reviewing 6,600 Broward County, Florida, ballots Dec. 18 to try to determine if they had been properly counted in November. About...
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From:Social Education (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE RECENT United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Bush v. Gore unleashed a torrent of controversy. Polls released shortly after the case was announced showed a deep division in public opinion: Republicans...
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From:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBy 8 P.M. on November 7, 2000 -- just one hour after most polling places in Florida had closed -- all six members of the Voter News Service (a consortium of the four major broadcast networks, plus CNN and AP) declared...
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From:Spectrum: the Journal of State Government (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 12, Issue 2)Palm Beach Counts John R. Bolton If there's a beach in Palm Beach County, Florida, you couldn't prove it by me. After over two weeks there, heading up Governor George W. Bush's legal team during the Great Recount...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 89, Issue 1)The Society of Professional Journalists has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to broaden its media access policies, despite its recent decision to expedite the release of audiotapes for the Dec. 1 scheduled hearings on the...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedROBERT A. JACKSON [*] This study addressed the implications for electoral participation of the contextual shift from a presidential to a midterm election. Both descriptive and multivariate analyses indicated that the...
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From:Public Administration Review (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe 2000 presidential election exposed serious election-administration deficiencies that affected the presidential election and the confidence of the American people in the way elections are administered. The ensuing...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPeron brought us social justice--and ruined the country. --Remark of an Argentine tourist guide, Buenos Aires, 1996 On November 21, 2000, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the resumption of manual vote recounts in...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs the 2000 postelection period wore on, media commentators began to refer to it as a great civics lesson. Unfortunately, too much of the commentary focused on the dramatic story unfolding in Florida and the voting...
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From:National Civic Review (Vol. 90, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe the people do not directly elect the president of the United States; the electoral college does. This election method may satisfy some people, but a desire for change is in the air. In Congress, in state...
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From:Social Education (Vol. 65, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Electoral College ... is the very model of up-to-date constitutional flexibility. --Martin Diamond(1) The impetus for abolishing the electoral college is as strong as it is simple. No sane electoral system...
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From:Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 116, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe year 2000 presidential election was a unique historical event. With a very close popular vote, the outcome depended on Florida, where, whichever way the votes were counted, the outcome was the closest state election...
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From:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines Russian television news coverage of the 2016 US presidential election. The article has three main aims: to assess Russian media bias in covering presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald...
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From:UMass Law Review (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 2019, Pennsylvania enacted Act 77, the first update to the Pennsylvania Election Code in nearly eighty years. Passed on a bipartisan basis, the law included a measure that permitted "no reason" mail-in ballots. Act 77...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Republican electoral advantage or 'lock' has failed to work in the 1996 presidential elections. In fact, such an inherent bias in outcomes in the electoral college in favor of the Republicans may never have existed...