The Straight Talk Express | The 21st Century
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Slate's podcast about campaign history, John Dickerson explains how retail politics won the day in the 2000 Republican primary in New Hampshire.
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| 0:33.2 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, a podcast of campaign curiosities. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm John Dickerson of Face the Nation. |
| 0:43.0 | When Ted Cruz, of Face the Nation, |
| 0:45.0 | when Ted Cruz talks about his insurgency against the establishment of the Republican Party, |
| 0:55.6 | he's aiming at senators like John McCain. |
| 0:58.4 | But there was a time when John McCain, the Arizona senator, was the anti-establishment crusader. In the election of 2000 |
| 1:05.1 | the Republican Party had chosen George W Bush, the governor of Texas, long |
| 1:09.7 | before the voters ever got out the rubber-headed mallet to pound the first yard side. |
| 1:15.0 | In perhaps one of the most masterful victories in the invisible primary, Bush became the |
| 1:19.7 | consensus favorite with every lobbyist, longtime GOP fundraiser, and inside Republican. |
| 1:25.6 | He was a lock. |
| 1:26.4 | He was in the books before they were open. |
| 1:28.5 | The only problem is that he forgot to tell the voters of New Hampshire. |
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