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...Sometimes there were concerns that the director getting into the job might be pressured into it or wasn't the best person," Hampton says. "We wanted to cast a wider...
...which they knew could be decisive in an election as close as this one, but which had also been at issue in some famously disputed Florida elections of recent years. In the Miami Beach mayoral race three years ago, incumbent Joe Carollo, a Republican, won 51% of the votes cast at polling places. His challenger, ex-mayor Xavier Suarez, who ran as an independent, won 61% of the absentees, forcing the contest into a runoff that Suarez won with a large number of absentee ballots. Carollo filed suit, claiming that Suarez forged signatures on absentee ballots. In March 1998, Judge...
...elegant Monroe, who had been Minister to France, and his beautiful wife Elizabeth, a New Yorker, gave the White House a French cast in decoration and furniture. Though some of the furnishings were dispersed and lost in subsequent Administrations, the idea that the White House was best as decorated by the Monroes was resurrected by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961. The Monroe idea reigns today...
...trick was to try to cast McCain as a phony, take a guy with a consistently conservative voting record and paint him as a dangerous liberal, suggest that the war hero was somehow un-American, or at least un-South Carolinian. Out came the antipersonnel weapons: "He's not one of us," and "He doesn't share our conservative values," and "He's outside the mainstream." On McCain's lack of "conservative values," Rove piped up to say, "We have to get in his face on that. He's vulnerable." Added Tompkins: "He's an insider. When I hear this...
Although today electors dwell in deserved obscurity, they still have to gather, usually in their state's capital, a month or so after Election Day and actually cast votes. They have carried out that task with admirably robotic precision: only nine have ever failed to vote as they pledged. But they could make mischief in circumstances such as the ones we face today, in which the winner of the popular vote may narrowly lose the electoral vote...