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Dead Man Wins Election: The Ultimate Collection of Outrageous, Weird, and Unbelievable Political Tales

door Phil Mason

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Despite our differences, there's a common thread uniting all of us: absurd political screw-ups happen. Welcome to Dead Man Wins Election, the ultimate collection of bizarre and outright un bel ievable tales from politics at home and around the world. Uncover the least competent politicians, the most outlandish government decisions, the strangest election results, and much more. Former president Bill Clinton, who touted his presidency as the watershed period for the modern Information Age. After his White House departure, it was disclosed that of the forty million emails his office produced, CLINTON HIMSELF HAD SENT...TWO. Harry Stonebreaker, who was reelected for mayor of Winfield, Missouri, despite having died a month before polling day. HE WON BY A LANDSLIDE WITH 90 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.

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I've read a number of this type of book; paragraph or so long reports of political strangeness, and thought many of the anecdotes would be rehashes of earlier books. Instead, almost all of the anecdotes are new to me (Kevin Rudd's earwax eating notwithstanding) and many are very funny.

My favourite story has to be the low turnout in Birmingham South for the 1979 European Parliament: by lunch the turnout was one voter, an elderly lady who thought she was voting in the Eurovision Song Contest. ( )
  MiaCulpa | Mar 15, 2019 |
Written by an experienced humor writer and collector of funny anecdotes, this is an absolutely delightful little book that had me ROTFL. If you didn't know before this book will show you that many politicians are idiots, and those that are not are people, just like everyone else. I think my favorite parts were about how the rigid rules of Parliamentary procedure can get twisted into DNA helixes by pols determined to get what they want. None of the stories are longer than a page or so and most are only a paragraph. This would make good bathroom reading (or bedside reading provided no one else sleeps with you or the person who does is deaf, since your laughter is sure to keep your sleeping partner awake). ( )
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