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The Florida re-count, 2000
The various legal issues underlying the failure to elect either George W Bush or Al Gore as president are explained by Alistair Cooke.
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Fri 17 Nov 200021:00
BBC Radio 4
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President Bush II has never been busier, 2002
Alistair Cooke reflects on President Bush's workload during the Iraq crisis.
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The science of electoral predictions
The difficulty in predicting the outcome of presidential elections.
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- Fri 17 Nov 200021:00BBC Radio 4
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See the scripts 2—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
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See the scripts at the Boston University Archive—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Link through to Alistair Cooke's original scripts, at Boston University's HGARC.
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