The Power of the Vote : : Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World
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Part one: birth of a pollster -- Canvassing, the Klan, and the plot to take over New York City -- Harvard, Ivy League radical chic, and the crisis of the Democratic Party -- The invention of overnight polling, Ed Koch, and politics in the Big Easy -- Part two: going global -- Polling in the promised land -- Public opinion research and the fall of Slobodan Milos̀ević -- Broadband politics, ugly Americans, and politics in the shadow of the world's most dangerous state -- Part three: the big time -- New Democrats, inoculation, Bill Clinton, and Ma Bell -- The stealth campaign and the resurrection of the Clinton presidency -- Jon Corzine, competitive liberalism, and the importance of messaging -- September 11, Mike Bloomberg, and the rise of the outsider -- Part four: an uncertain future -- The power and possibilities of exit polls -- Pitfalls on the path to 2008.
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PUBLISHED
New York : William Morrow, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xx, 396 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0061231886
9780061231889
SUBJECTS
Presidents -- Election.
Presidents -- Election -- 2008.
Presidents -- Election -- Case studies.
Political campaigns -- History.
Political campaigns -- Case studies.
Democratic Party (U.S.)
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.