Tuesday in November (1945)

★★★★★ · Fucking insanity... · hart noecker · 2005-01-30

So, like, NOW Diebold has to make voting machines that print a piece of paper. Now! How has the lives of billions of people been subject to the wims of a fucking printer? Paper and ink have been forced together for THOUSANDS of years. Why, after cloning animals and traveling to other objects in space, have we just figured out how to print a ballot after a computer records our vote? How many tens of thousands have or will die because of this?

★★★★ · The Democratic Circus · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-07-28

As part of the postwar effort, the United States government produced a series of film to ready the war torn countries of Europe and Asia for setting up American style democracies. This film explains, in simplified terms, the American electorial process, describing such concepts as the secret ballot, and the system of checks and balances. While there is some dated information (references to 48 states, and specific references to the 1944 election), the basic information is still valid, if a bit idealized. Note that such institutions such as the role of labor and other specialized groups in an…

★★★★ · Familiar Voice · donwert · 2011-02-04

Do my ears betray me or the narrator Jose Ferrer? Always fun in these 1940s war information films to see all the character actors we've all seen in movies from that era---the Republican and Democratic poll workers must have been in dozens of films....

★★★★ · Dewey For President! · Spuzz · 2005-02-05

Very nicely put together short about the intricies of putting an election together in small town America in 1944, we follow a regular office (Campaign buttons off please!) as people stroll in to cast their ballots. We see who the people are voting for (eg the upper house, the lower house) and we also see some fantastic early convention footage. All of this is narrated by your Uncle Ben, the calm one who sat you by the fire and told you stories? Anyways, the narration is calm, which makes you very comfortable and at ease. A surprise! Highly reccomended!

★★★★ · An old style election · uniQ · 2010-11-27

You have to admit, idealized as it obviously is, the idea of an election, both in ideal, concept and physical operation, is quite amazing. It is too bad there aren't more people like Mrs. Dawson out there to make sure every vote is cast and counted.

★ · FDR:Poster Child for Term Limits · micah6vs8 · 2012-01-11

4 terms! Seriously? What an awful presidency from trying to pack the Supreme Court to denying black men equal status in WW2 to Yalta (bye bye Poland & Eastern Europe) and that is the least of it in total. A man of marginal character at best. At least he picked Truman for V.P. in '44.