the person having the greatest number of votes The 2000 Campaign Recount and Legal Battle Oct 8th and 10th How people vote and candidates looks at those factors to explain their strengths and the opponents weakness how they ads debates and general strategy 2008 Bush was unpopular b c he started two wars with the support of the people Iraq and Afghanistan the economy is in recession John McCain involves nature of the times and candidate voting Republicans usually one of them is the front runner most money popular in the primary Was Hillary Clinton Usually have Iowa or New Hampshire Front runner and momenta In Iowa Obama won Iowa so was taking more seriously Clinton and Obama back to back After Clinton endorsed Obama at the convention Nature of the times really favored Obama McCain is like Bush Candidate evaluation favored McCain war hero Ads prisoner of war serve my country so I can make American strong Another Ad higher taxes from Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world Economic Crisis during the race McCain I think it is fundamentally strong less strong another ad vote for McCain is 4 more years of Bush Party leaders look at the Electoral College map Toss up and background states The bigger states had more electoral votes 230 democrats 230 rep 80 swing states 2000 Bill Clinton president for 8 years economy very strong deficits gov spend more money Al Gore George Bush Nature of times and peace and prosperity Both parties were united AlGore had advantage in terms of nature and issues also very confident and knowledgeable but boring stiff aloof and condensing candidate evaluation Bush witty charming Gore distanced himself from Clinton because of moral issues Bush didn t have an advantage in any of the issues gore want to spend the money on gov programs he will say a big tax cut gore trust gov while I trust u for decisions Candidate evaluation Ohio and Texas ad Gore s ad to for health care fight for family Republicans surplus and gov spending Gore will say anything org Taxes more tax relief spending trust and health care gore tried to say he master the issue not bush nationals patients bill of rights 2000 map little margin of victory ahead by 2000 votes marginal vic left than half a oercent then every county does a optical scan or punch card What is fair in the law educated guess include Types of chads hanging chad dislodged 3 corners swinging dislodged at 2 corners tri dislodged at 1 corner don t out in correctly or disability dimpled not dislodged but indented pregnant Partial recount looking at the ballot examine it weather detect a vote or not hanging but intended to be a vote for the candidate forida says revount in 4 counties Early Network Call gore had won florida so there was no point voting others said it was based on wrong info cant count a non vote Palm beach county Butterfly ballot very confusing Vote could be for someone else gov fault not voters Absentee Applications fill out required information only the voters can fll information florida voting restrigation number courts said it was illegal Partially filled in my somebody elese therefore it should not count However the voter didn t too anything wrong the partys fault Counted separately don t throw out legal votes Didn t throw out legal votes for illegal votes Overvotes looked at every single ballot indicated twice the same candidate
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