Word: thinks
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Lastly, the election--which, when you think about it, also didn't happen. For about a minute people actually thought we might get McCain and Bill Bradley, but we wound up with the two guys we knew we'd get, deep down. And what did they do? First George W. Bush did the unexpected: he didn't make a fool of himself during the debates. Then Al Gore couldn't decide whether he was Attack Dog Al or Nice Guy Al. And finally, Dubya and Al tied. In a year when things didn't happen, one after another...
...think our guys tried every trick in the book to win the presidency? Think again. The post-ballot maneuverings of Al Gore and George W. Bush were nothing compared to what Slobodan Milosevic tried in Yugoslavia when, to his astonishment, an election went against him. On Sept. 24 Vojislav Kostunica, head of the center-right Democratic Party of Serbia, who had the support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic...
...wrong. I'm not a chauvinistic New Yorker. That Woody Allen superciliousness thing is old hat - and was wrong-headed to begin with. I despise the smugness of New Yorkers who think they live in the center of the universe, who think that all knowledge resides on this little island. New York is on the edge, not in the center; it's an anomaly, not the norm...
...George W. Bush has a puffed-up cock-of-the-walk strut. For people who think he's a little too full of himself, his walk is further evidence. Al Gore leans slightly forward and barrels along without looking sideways, which gives people the idea that he's not much of a lateral thinker. Bill Clinton has a galumphing, knock-kneed stride that explains why, as a 6' 2" 200 lb. high-school student in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was in the band rather than on the football team. The camera shot of him walking by himself - steely-jawed...
...president to decide. Republicans fight sampling on philosophical and ideological grounds, but mostly because they think it costs them political clout and federal money. Democrats have no problem with using a little science if it bumps up accuracy by accounting for people the census workers couldn't find - again, mostly heavily Democratic minorities in big cities who don't answer when the government comes knocking at their door...