Word: explainer
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Remember, he had been trying to reshape the whole landscape of American politics, by revitalizing and reinventing a kind of liberalism that had passed away with Bobby Kennedy. Yet he often hadn't had the words to explain it. But the bombing speech was a moment where, out of the ashes of sorrow and horror, one is reminded of the transcendent political good. Clinton changed the political landscape in a way that makes him the major political figure at the end of the 20th century. And the Oklahoma City speech is where that was most clearly crystallized, not just intellectually...
...Electoral College, a last-minute addition to the Constitution, distorts the popular vote. It is impossible to explain to foreigners. Even most Americans don't understand it. It produced its first election crisis in our very third presidential election 200 years ago. As originally formulated, the electors were not to vote separately for President and Vice President. The presidency went to the electoral-vote winner, the vice presidency to the runner-up. It was thus conceivable that a vice-presidential nominee could be elected President...
...reason to get snippy," Gore said. He had to repeat himself--it's too close to concede--a couple of times. Bush was confident that this time the networks were right. Brother Jeb was right there, crunching the numbers for himself from the Florida website. "Let me explain it to you," Gore said. "Your younger brother is not the ultimate authority on this." The call ended abruptly. "Well, Mr. Vice President," Bush said, "you need to do what you have...
...With the Gore legal team already having landed their appeal of Judge Terry Lewis' decision in front of the highest court in the state, it was up to Christopher and Boies to explain their case - and ask the American people for a few more days of wrangling...
...explain the paradox that the emergence of more moderate regimes in Serbia and Croatia is followed by a strengthening of nationalism in Bosnia's Serb and Croat communities...