Word: scientists
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Kimball Brace, the founder and president of tiny Election Data Services, shambled up to the witness stand of Judge Sanders Sauls' Leon County omnibus hearing-for-the-presidency, bespectacled and bookish, grayed and shaggy - like Pat Caddell's older and even geekier brother. A political scientist by education and a demographer (sort of) by trade, he's also been looking in on the election offices and voting booths of this great nation for 25 years. He'd even brought his own Votomatic, just like they use in Palm Beach, which he'd owned since the '70s. And after a meticulous...
...many chads make a pile ("I don't know"), and every other technical fine point with which he could stump Brace for Sauls' amusement. "Your opinion as a political science major is that rubber gets harder?" Beck scoffed, the scarcasm dripping. Brace had come in looking like a scientist, and left sounding like a Gore backer who couldn't prove a word he said...
...Jesse Jackson. Lord knows he has his flaws, and over the years I've had plenty to say about them. But when it comes to turning blacks out on Election Day, Jackson is the undisputed champion. Without him and the millions of black votes he helped deliver, says political scientist Ronald Walters of the University of Maryland, "we'd have been planning George W. Bush's Inauguration since Election...
...black turnout rose from 5% of the total turnout in the last election to 12%--not enough to keep the state out of Bush's column but assuring the election of the late Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan (his widow will serve his term). Blacks in Tennessee, says political scientist David Bositis, "can't be blamed" for the Vice President's loss of his home state. Their share of the turnout leaped from 13% to 18%. In every one of these states and nationwide Gore received more than 90% of the black vote, rivaling the margins enjoyed by Bill Clinton...
...geneticists, landed him nowhere. Many firms shunned him precisely because he had gone abroad and returned to India. "They were suspicious," Dubey says. "They wondered, 'Unless there was something wrong with the guy, why would he come back?'" Girls didn't want to date the 30-year-old unemployed scientist either...