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    The election of 2000 was significant because it was one of the closest elections to date. The election of 2008 was historic because it was the first time an African American was elected president. The election of 2016 differs from other elections because it is the two most-hated candidates in history. Also, it is the first time a woman has been nominated as the candidate for a major party. The purpose of concession speeches is to show gratitude toward their supporters and families. The tone of these

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    Even from a Conservative standpoint, the year 2000 election was falsely counted and led to controversy that was unneeded. There are an abundance of points on why this election was wrongly concluded. Starting as of November 8th, 2000, no clear winner emerged. It was Florida’s ability to determine the final outcome of this election. A tally of the votes had Bush with 2,909,135 votes in the state. [1] Gore obtained, in the state of Florida, 2,907,351 votes. [1] This pushed Joe Lieberman to host a gathering

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    presidential election in the year 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore was one of the closest finishes in our country’s history. In addition to the election being so tightly contested, the election also provided an in depth look at the inner workings of our political process. There are 538 electors in the United States Electoral College, thus to win the presidency a candidate must receive the majority vote of at least 271 electoral votes. In the case of the presidential election of 2000, George W

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    There are multiple skeptics behind the 2000 Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Presently the election was neck-to-neck between both candidates. The results come out and Bush is the winner by 1,784 votes (1). On the other hand, the votes counting machine started to show different numbers and elder citizens believed they selected the wrong candidates in the ballot. Arguably, Bush is in my favor of winning the election fairly. Although the movie, “Recount”, portrayed what really happened and

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    The 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 lost the presidency in the electoral college by a count of 271-267. Even this count was suspect, dependent on the tally in Florida, where many minority voters were denied the vote, ballots were confusing, and recounts were mishandled and manipulated. The choice of their leader came

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    Presidential Election of 2000 featured George W. Bush and Al Gore. It will go down in history as one of the most closest elections¡¦ in US history. It also goes down as one of the most controversial. The final decision was based on just a few hundred votes in Florida. The controversy began when the media prematurely declared the winner twice based solely on exit polls. They finally conceded that the Florida count was just too close to predict. It would take a month before the election was ultimately

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    The 2000 Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was not legitimate, and the numbers show the facts. The senior citizens of Palm Beach, Florida voted for Al Gore but because of the structure of the ballot and the chad, the machine read their votes for Republican candidate Pat Buchanan instead. The citizens of this Florida County demanded for a recount, hence the name of the movie, because they wanted their votes to count and their voices to be witnessed. However, in order for a recount

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    The Presidential election of 2000 was a legitimate election. Throughout the entire ordeal of the recount in Florida, Presidential nominee, Al Gore, never took the lead from George Bush. There were four counties in Florida that the Democrats were trying to get recounted. Only 18 out of 67 counties were actually recounted (1). After election day on November 7th, Bush was ahead 2,000 votes; however, the problem was that there were 175,000 ballots declared uncountable because of hanging, dimpled chads

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    One study looked at how priming impacted voters’ perceptions of candidates in the 2000 election. In this study, researchers used date from the National Annenberg Election Survey to see how public perception of both George W. Bush and Al Gore changed after they went onto a late-night comedy show. The results found that Bush experienced a perceived increase in honesty, inspiration, leadership and warmth; Gore, in contrast, was perceived to be more knowledgeable and caring (Moy, Xenos, & Hess, 2005)

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    huge media outlets can have on elections and they used Fox News as an example. Since Fox News is one of the only right wing tv channels in all of television it is bound to have an effect on voters, the question is how much. To see how big the effect was they looked at the change in republican vote share between 1996 and 2000 in towns that had adopted Fox News by 2000. The main result of this research was that Fox News had a significant effect on the 2000 elections. The entry of Fox News increased

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