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...AWARDS: The weirdest theory, the most shameless ad and the most embarrassing family moment...
...made the campaign a free-for-all, in the best and the worst senses of the phrase. The candidates churned out position papers that not many people read. But Michael Moore made a movie that a lot of people saw. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made an ad campaign--a lot of people saw that too. Al Franken pulled up to the microphone. Ann Coulter took up near permanent residence in front of the TV cameras. Now George W. Bush gets four more years. Do the rest of them get four more as well? The people on these pages...
...become a symbol of the new power of the Internet in national politics--a cyberspace headquarters of anti-Bush sentiment and a powerful online fund-raising tool, with some 2.8 million members. Backed with millions of grass-roots dollars, MoveOn took to the airwaves with one Bush-bashing TV ad after another--but to no avail...
...legacy" school, composed mostly of Washington-establishment Republicans of both moderate and conservative hue. "Second terms are about legacy," said a G.O.P. establishmentarian. "I think you'll see a midcourse correction and admission of errors on Iraq now that the Democrats can't make a negative ad about it. I think you'll see him make a real move on expanding health care and tax simplification. He may try some small Social Security--privatization demonstration projects. He will have to address the budget deficit. He will want to find ways to cooperate with Democrats to get things accomplished...
...turned everyone from Kim Jong Il to Michael Moore into puppets for its movie Team America. On the Web, office bandwidth was tested by jokey videos and gags on sites like billionairesforbush.com and wolfpacksfortruth.org (an aggrieved wolf pack claims it was tricked into filming the G.O.P.'s anti-Kerry ad). At the end of a campaign that roused fierce passions, Notebook looks back at the people who helped us get through it. --By Carolina A. Miranda...