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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After three years without an alternative fund, the idea was revived in 2000, when Joshua A. Edelman '00 and Greg A. Novak '00 began collecting money to make a contribution to a charity of the class' choice. Novak and Edelman's program did not ask seniors to shun the traditional senior gift...
...while Bush continued to play rock star for rabid and homogenous Republican crowds, hitting his handful of standard high notes - bringing folks together, trusting folks, rejectin' the politics of scarin' folks, and rebuilding the military - Gore is a bit plaintively shaking the lapels of everybody (make that anybody) who might conceivably pull a lever on Tuesday because he or she would miss having a Democrat in the White House. And that includes the folks who would be happy to vote for William Jefferson Clinton for a third term - though the vice president isn't saying that out loud...
...Philadelphia, and Detroit, and Flint. Turnout in Florida, and Florida, and Florida. (For the other Clinton heir, turnout in New York City, which is why Bill Clinton left a message on my answering machine today. I didn't pick up - figured he had a lot of other calls to make...
...through this clutter, campaigns relied heavily this year on prerecorded phone calls, including messages from celebrities like Norman Schwarzkopf and mother Barbara for Bush; and for Gore, Barbra Streisand, Stephen King and Ed Asner. The Democrats alone planned to make 40 million phone calls in the last 10 days of the campaign. (No word on how many smashed phones electronics stores have been asked to replace.) "Phone messages get more attention than other ads," says Jamieson. "If people agree with what they hear, they play it again and again for their friends." And you just know that folks like that...
...billion-dollar question is whether the last-minute ads make any difference. Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University, says that in the past two elections, Bill Clinton did himself far more good with early ads. "The effectiveness of advertising," he says, "probably diminishes the closer you get to the election itself." As if you Michiganders didn't know that already...