Talk:2000 Republican Party presidential primaries

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This page is a part of series of pages named "Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, XXXX". All democratic primaries and all republican primaries, except 2000, are already have corresponded pages from from 1964 to 2008. I think we need to move information from republican part of United States presidential primaries, 2000 to Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2000 --Alex Welens (talk) 18:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Campaign contributions:

I am a strong believer in the concept of “follow the money” Is there a way we can add the top contributors to the campaigns? Thank you --OxAO (talk) 23:51, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

George P. Shultz's central role in supporting Bush

On 25 February 2011, I added the following at the beginning of the article. In my opinion, the deletion by Fat&Happy is unwarranted:

George P. Shultz played a central role among establishment Republicans in supporting Bush as their 2000 presidential candidate. On October 12, 2004, 9-11 PM EDT, the PBS Frontline program "The Choice 2004" examined the presidential candidates Bush and John F. Kerry. One of the fascinating revelations was made by Shultz. In April 1998, while Bush was visiting California, Shultz asked him: Why don't you come over to my house, and I'll gather the usual suspects to discuss policy issues. Schultz and the others were so impressed by Bush that they urged him to run for president because, as Shultz said: It seems to me that you have a good seat-of-the-pants for it. According to the program's narrator: By the end of 1998, the money was rolling in. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/

1998 April: Bush travels to Palo Alto, Calif., and the Hoover institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University. While in California, he is invited by George Shultz to a meeting at Shultz's home to talk with various policy experts, including Michael Boskin, John Taylor and Condoleeza Rice. They are looking for a presidential candidate for 2000 with good political instincts -- someone they can work with. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/bush/cron.html

Italus (talk) 02:03, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

I've addressed the problems with your edit at the other article. You should craft a different mention if you are referencing the data point to another article. I support Fat&Happy's revert of the edit that was here, but I'd point out that a slight expansion of the article would not be a bad thing, and that this aspect is both notably sourced and relevant. The winner of a primary has generally not been merely the person who outlasts all others in the campaigns' ups and downs (as are highlighted here) or gets the most votes, but the person who garners the most notable early supporters and the big money that follows that, as (as is true in this case) it suggests these supporters are in step with, and may play a role in, the prospective administration. Abrazame (talk) 05:55, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

I would add that of the four articles where identical content was pasted, this one would seem to be the most appropriate for some mention beyond the shortened version I edited into the George Shultz article. And while PBS is an RS, the first ref supplied, to the main page of the program, seems inadequate, similar to citing a quote to a large book without supplying a page number. Fat&Happy (talk) 06:16, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

I just found the full transcript of the Frontline program at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/etc/script.html , where the Shultz quotations in my first ref can be found. Italus (talk) 11:39, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Delegates

Why is there no totals of the delegates won? It shows which state they won, but not the delegate values of those states.