Revisit the 2000 Election with Recount
If a thirty-day wait until Election Day is too long for you and you crave some political excitement, rent Recount. Here is what Ann Althouse had to say about the movie:
I thought it was quite good. Though the story was mainly told from the Gore side, the Bush point of view was represented fairly, and there was a good overall balance to it. Complicated legal issues were explained surprising well without belaboring through through the use of various actors playing characters shown working out their next moves and real TV reporters seen in old video clips, telling us the news as it happened 8 years ago. It was especially exciting to see those old news clips, because, perfectly edited in, they stirred up the emotion that I felt when I saw them the first time.
I really liked the movie as well. By the end, I understood why the butterfly ballot was confusing, why hanging chads, dimpled chads and pregnant chads were all important, and how Al Gore would probably have won the Presidency had the Supreme Court not intervened.
