The Daily Show: Indecision 2000
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The Daily Show: Indecision 2000 was a series of special episodes featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart spoofing the 2000 Presidential Election. This series covered the primaries leading up to the general election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The series featured "correspondents" at the Democratic National Convention as well as the Republican National Convention. At the conventions, the correspondents interviewed many politicians in the comedic style that has made The Daily Show famous. The title "Indecision 2000" was used before the election, which was fortunate foresight or luck, as it later became clear that the 2000 election actually was an "indecision".
In 2000, Indecision 2000 won a Peabody Award.
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[edit] Impact on future episodes of The Daily Show
The "Indecision" title became a standard for mock election coverage of various kinds afterwards in regular versions of The Daily Show, mocking the "Decision" label used by MSNBC in its coverage of campaigns. The Daily Show covered "A Spot of Indecision 2005" for the 2005 United Kingdom Parliamentary Elections, "Indecision 5767" for the 2006 Israeli Knesset Elections, making a joke on the Hebrew calendar whose year is reckoned in Anno Mundi and a bilingual Indecision/Indécision 2006 for the 2006 Canadian general election.
The 2008 Election has also been referred to on "The Daily Show" as "Clusterf@#k to the White House."
On September 11, 2007, Stephen Colbert announced that he is beginning a new segment for the upcoming 14 months to the 2008 election, titling it "Indecision 2008: Don't F%#K this up America".
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Indecision 2000 was the first of the "Indecision" specials on The Daily Show although not the first for Comedy Central. (The "Indecision" brand was introduced during the 1992 Presidential Campaign, beginning with coverage of the 1992 Democratic National Convention hosted by Al Franken.[1]) The next was The Daily Show: Indecision 2004 covering the 2004 Presidential Election.
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