The scarcity of these incidents, which occur just five or six times throughout the season, gives them each power. The variations among them, each reflecting some unique perspective on the format, paint a fuller picture. And the honesty of the accidents, the hazards of documentary filmmaking, establishes this reality better than anything else.
For at least one component of Battleground , everything is motivated. The only way Creighton had a chance of winning was to cheat. Samuels loses, Tak now has seven failed campaigns under his belt, and I, for one, was shocked, and not just because Donnellan calls to ask a campaign manager who has never won to run his presidential bid.
Everyone gets there on their own, which creates a palpable angst. The next generation of bubbly Save time, money, and ultimately help save the planet by forgoing your La Croix. Toward the end are two speeches that illustrate those same opposing forces that animated the pilot. They snake their way toward what would be Camp Randall, from the visuals. As they approach the area, they realize they have ten minutes to get to the speech site before the Secret Service shuts down all access, so they jump out and run, following volunteer Lindsey, who says she knows a shortcut.
Everyone, including the camera crew, races through throngs of people clad in Badger red. They make it just in time save Jordan -- too slow. Snippets of a televised Obama speech shown backstage create the impression of an actual rally, before Samuels goes on stage, with Tak bolstering her courage by saying: "This is your moment. Cut to Election Day. Tak Jay Hayden and KJ Teri Reeves are following reports of voting day shenanigans, including people from Illinois voting by showing a Wisconsin pay stub and claiming residency -- these same Illinois residents who were bussed up from the Land of Lincoln by Samuels' opponents in the first place.
No wonder Republicans thought they needed that voter ID law. Pay stubs! Compounding matters: a last minute PAC-funded ad telling African Americans not to vote, and some creative telephone bank rerouting which means that poor people calling the Samuels number to get a ride to the polls get disconnected.
Tak plays hardball with the operative who's re-routed the phone calls, but it's not enough. When the results come in, it's clear that the reason Creighton had light advertising in Madison was that he was spending it all up north. It does seem this is something the campaign might have tumbled to earlier It's over. Yet for some Samuels staffers, it's not over: just as it's clear Samuels will not come out on top in this election, a Congressman Donelin from Maine gets in contact with Tak, hoping to hire the team to run his presidential campaign.
He is, significantly, a Republican, although Tak rationalizes that "he's from Maine. The excellent condition of the autograph book and the celebrity of the men who signed it ensured that it would remain a fascinating keepsake for many years. For a decade after the end of the Civil War, the James-Younger gang carried on as they had during, and even before, the war — traveling the countryside, robbing, killing, and spreading mayhem.
They'd grown up in Missouri during a time when that state was a battleground in the national debate on slavery, and were accustomed to violent conflict. Before the war began, militias on both sides of the slavery issue took up implements of destruction, burning down farms throughout Missouri and Kansas and intimidating those they disagreed with. The Jameses and the Youngers, distant relations by marriage, all joined up with irregular Confederate militias.
Cole and Frank James, Jesse's older brother, were participants in the Lawrence Massacre, in which the bushwhackers under William Quantrill slew most of the male population of Lawrence, Kansas, and burned the town to the ground. After the war ended, the Youngers and Jameses joined forces and began their career in crime, which they considered or claimed to consider an extension of the Civil War.
In letters to sympathetic newspaper editors, Jesse proclaimed himself and his outfit to be oppressed Southern victims of Yankee aggression, and American Robin Hoods who stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
For 10 years they robbed banks, wiping out savings accounts, and trains, in which they killed uncooperative engineers; but the final act of the James-Younger gang was the botched robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, in September , during which the citizens of the town took up rifles and drove the thieves out of town.
In the aftermath, the Youngers would be arrested. The robbery went wrong from the beginning: at least some of the gang had spent the day drinking whiskey at a Northfield saloon, drawing so much attention to themselves that before they'd even entered the bank, many in Northfield suspected what they were up to.
Once inside the bank, their intoxication seems to have caused them to make a series of mistakes, such as not noticing that the vault, which they commanded the bank's employees to open, was already open.
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