Bush v. Gore: Episode 2 – Real Numbers
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On election night 2000 an ad hoc network of statisticians, news producers, TV anchors, and political operatives tried to figure out what the hell was going on in Florida–and failed spectacularly.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:09.7 | Hey, Leon here. |
| 0:11.6 | Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know that you can binge the entire season of Fiasco |
| 0:16.9 | Bush v. Gore right now, ad-free, by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber. |
| 0:22.6 | Sign up for Pushkin Plus on the Fiasco Apple Podcasts show page, or visit pushkin.fm. |
| 0:28.7 | slash plus. |
| 0:30.6 | Now on to the episode. |
| 0:34.6 | Previously on Fiasco. |
| 0:42.3 | The vice president stepped elbows deep into the L.A.N. Gonzalez controversy. I used to be a Democrat up to the time of the Leon Gonzalez. |
| 0:45.3 | She was guilty by association. |
| 0:46.3 | Suddenly it's a two-front war against George Bush and a new headache, |
| 0:51.3 | consumer advocate Ralph Nader. |
| 0:53.3 | Homestead Air Force Base has become all things to all people. |
| 0:56.7 | Gore had a choice to make, and he decided to avoid the choice. |
| 1:01.7 | It was Waffle City. |
| 1:03.5 | I ask for your help and your vote because I want to fight for you. |
| 1:07.4 | God bless you, Florida. Thank you. |
| 1:21.6 | Murray Aedleman was just out of college and working a summer job at the U.S. Census Bureau when he met an older statistician named Warren Mitowski. It was 1966. |
| 1:28.4 | The following year, |
| 1:30.5 | Matowski got an exciting new job with the CBS News Elections Desk, |
| 1:32.4 | and he started trying to convince Aedlman to join him there. |
| 1:35.2 | He knew I was one of the sharper things at the Bureau at the time, |
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