Question: What does Kerry feel Bush aliented the American people with?
Answer: his foreign policy

Question: The stategy that Bush used against Kerry was compared to what other similar strategy in the past?
Answer: just as his father did with Dukakis in the 1988 election

Question: Who was accused on not fulfilling their military service, during the fall of 2004?
Answer: Bush

Question: What shifted attention away from the coverage regarding Bush's controvery regarding his required service?
Answer: a segment on 60 Minutes

Question: Which news agency came under review resulting in the firing of their producer?
Answer: CBS News

Question: Which time period came into the spotlight, during the fall of 2004?
Answer: the late 1960s and early 1970s

Question: What did the documents that were aired during the 60 Minutes segment come to be known as?
Answer: Killian documents

Question: Where did the first debate, between Kerry and Bush take place?
Answer: University of Miami

Question: Who was considered to have been the winner of the debate?
Answer: Kerry

Question: Who was the moderator of the first debate between Kerry and Bush?
Answer: Jim Lehrer

Question: What was thought to be the main focal point of the debate?
Answer: foreign policy

Question: How did the opinion regarding Kerry change, after being delared the winner of the debate?
Answer: strengthening what had come to be seen as a weak and troubled campaign

Question: Where was the second debate for presidency held?
Answer: Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

Question: Was the second debate held in a rigid, formalistic manner?
Answer: town meeting format, less formal

Question: Was there a specific topic as the main focus for the second debate?
Answer: taking questions on a variety of subjects from a local audience

Question: Who was the moderator of the second debate, held at the Washington University?
Answer: Charles Gibson

Question: How did Bush try to make light of himself after being made fun of for his demeanor during the first debate?
Answer: joking at one point about one of Kerry's remarks, "That answer made me want to scowl."

Question: How many debates were there in total, between Kerry and Bush?
Answer: third

Question: Where was the final debate, between Kerry and Bush held?
Answer: Arizona State University

Question: What was the next biggest competitor for television viewers, next to the debate?
Answer: Major League Baseball playoffs broadcast simultaneously

Question: Who did Kerry publicize as a lesbian while discussing gay rights, some time after the debate?
Answer: Vice President Cheney's daughter

Question: What did Cheney refer to him as, after hearing Kerry's comments about his daughter?
Answer: "a pretty angry father"

Question: Who received a certified ballot from the Electoral College, despite his name being spelled incorrectly on the ballot?
Answer: John Edwards

Question: Had there ever been a time where an elector voted for the same candidate to be both president and vice president?
Answer: This was the first time in U.S. history

Question: Which candidate won the unanimous vote for vice presidency?
Answer: All ten electors in the state cast ballots for John Edwards for vice president

Question: What is different in comparison between the 1800 electoral system and the system in place in 2004?
Answer: under that electoral system only votes for the president's position were cast, with the runner-up in the Electoral College becoming vice president

Question: In the 1800 election, why did Thomas Jefferson get the second vote?
Answer: it violated Electoral College rules

Question: Why was there tension the day after the election?
Answer: It was clear that the result in Ohio, along with two other states who had still not declared (New Mexico and Iowa), would decide the winner

Question: Despite an apparent lead by Bush early on, what was thought to be a concern?
Answer: provisional ballots that had yet to be counted, initially reported to number as high as 200,000

Question: How would it be determined who would win, in the event of an electoral tie?
Answer: The result of an electoral tie would cause the election to be decided in the House of Representatives with each state casting one vote, regardless of population

Question: Which state became the most important to secure Bush's presidential election?
Answer: the outcome of the election hinged solely on the result in Ohio

Question: Who did Bush lose the popular vote to in the 2000 election for presidency?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: Was there any debate about the voting process in Ohio?
Answer: a motion was made contesting Ohio's electoral votes

Question: What was the decision regarding the motion to re-count the votes, after each House finalized their debates?
Answer: During the debate, no Senator argued that the outcome of the election should be changed by either court challenge or revote

Question: Who was the lone supporter of the motion, from the Senate?
Answer: Senator Boxer

Question: Why did Senator Boxer say she voted the way she did?
Answer: Senator Boxer claimed that she had made the motion not to challenge the outcome, but to "shed the light of truth on these irregularities."

Question: How many people from the House of Representatives did not vote?
Answer: Not voting were 52 Republicans and 80 Democrats

Question: What did Kerry say affected the ability to know if the results of the Ohio vote was unbiased?
Answer: "the widespread irregularities make it impossible to know for certain that the [Ohio] outcome reflected the will of the voters."

Question: Which Democratic official supported Kerry's theory about the Ohio votes?
Answer: Howard Dean

Question: What was said about the devices used to collect the votes, in Ohio?
Answer: the machines were not reliable

Question: Who was targeted for defrauding the electoral process, in Ohio?
Answer: the Republicans are willing to do things that are unethical to manipulate elections

Question: Who was called in to watch over the presidential election in 2004?
Answer: the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent a team of observers to monitor the presidential elections in 2004

Question: Was this the only occasion the OSCE was invited to preside over a presidential election?
Answer: It was the first time the OSCE had sent observers to a U.S. presidential election, although they had been invited in the past.

Question: What were the findings of the OSCE team?
Answer: mostly met the OSCE commitments included in the 1990 Copenhagen Document

Question: What type of values did the OSCE determine were adhered to during the election process?
Answer: long-standing democratic tradition

Question: What finance act affected the 2004 election?
Answer: the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

Question: Where did the moniker McCain-Feingold Bill come from?
Answer: its sponsors in the United States Senate

Question: How did the 527 groups come up with their title?
Answer: Named for a section of the Internal Revenue Code

Question: What stipulation enabled the 527 groups to campaign for funds?
Answer: as long as they do not coordinate their activities with political campaigns

Question: What is one of the named 527 groups from the 2004 election?
Answer: MoveOn.org

Question: How were viewers able to determine who endorsed political campaign ads, they saw in advertisements??
Answer: required to include a verbal disclaimer identifying the organization responsible for the advertisement

Question: What was disallowed in advertising during the two months prior to the general election?
Answer: 60 days before the general election), such organizations' ads were prohibited from mentioning any candidate by name

Question: Official advertisements generally contained what phrase?
Answer: "I'm [candidate's name], and I approve this message."