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The Closest Presidential Election Ever |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--THE MEANING OF THE 2000 ELECTIONS |
| Author: Lee Edwards |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,442 Words, 15,170 Characters |
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A presidential election is usually a referendum on continuity or change, but in 2000 the American people seemed to vote for continuity and change.
The public's desire for change frustrated Vice President Al Gore, who should have been able to win the presidency by promising to continue the unquestioned peace and prosperity of the Clinton-Gore years. But President Bill Clinton was so personally unwelcome in the living rooms of most Americans that Gore kept Clinton at arm's length throughout the campaign, insisting again and again, "I am my own man." Gore strove to negate the wish for change by emphasizing the "dangerous" nature of his opponent's reforms, such as tax cuts for the "rich" and partial privatization of Social Security.
The desire for continuity hampered Gov. George W....
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...itary coup, no UN peacekeeping force, no new election. They knew, rather, than in time there would be a winner, a transition, and an inauguration. And they were encouraged by the spirit of bipartisanship that emerged in Washington, led by the man who offered himself as a unifier and not a divider during the campaign--George W. Bush, the forty-third president of the United States of America.
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