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   Boiling frog

   Often it is used to illustrate a slippery-slope argument. ... Al Gore uses the analogy in his presentations and the movie An Inconvenient Truth to describe people's ignorance towards the issue of global warming.
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   An Inconvenient Truth

   On 10 October 2007, Mr Justice Burton, after explaining that the requirement for a balanced presentation does not warrant that equal weight be given to alternative views of a mainstream view, ruled that it was clear that the film was substantially founded upon scientific research and fact, albeit that the science is used, in the hands of a talented politician and communicator, to make a political statement and to support a political program. ... Al Gore
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   Face perception

   Recognising a face involves a process of analogy. ... ↑ Gauthier I, Skudlarski P, Gore JC, Anderson AW. (2000) Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition.
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   Esperanto grammar

   the contending candidate Al Gore was prezidunto (would-be president – that is, if the recount had gone differently). ... Since there is often a verb derived from the same Latin root, in these cases prezidi (to preside) and studi (to study), this -ento has occasionally been proposed as a tense-neutral active participle by analogy with the temporal participles -anto, -into, -onto.
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   Richard Marius

   Al Gore-Israel controversy ... When you make the Nazi analogy, it cannot be tossed off as, 'Oh, how silly of me to have done this.'
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   Lyndon B. Johnson

   Mimicry, humor, and the genius of analogy made The Treatment an almost hypnotic experience and rendered the target stunned and helpless. ... The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to George W. Bush.)
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   Monday Night Football

   Miller demonstrated a knowledge of the game and its personalities, although at times he tended to lapse into sometimes obscure analogy-riddled streams of consciousness similar to the "rants" of his standup comedy act. ... ESPN's October 23, 2006 telecast of the New York Giants–Dallas Cowboys drew the largest audience in the history of cable television at the time, besting the previous mark set by a 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot.
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   Media bias

   For example, according to Fair, ‘When Al Gore proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Advertising Age (10/13/03): "The problem with being associated as liberal is that they wouldn't be going in a direction that advertisers are really interested in.... ... This argument fails in considering the imbalance in self-reported political allegiances by journalists themselves, that distort any market analogy as regards offer: (...)
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   Conrad Burns

   While Burns attempted to link Schweitzer with presidential candidate Al Gore, whom Schweitzer never met, Schweitzer "effectively portrayed himself as nonpolitical". ... Burns went on to repeat his "taxicab driver" analogy several times over the next few days.
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    Plurality voting system

    The term first past the post (abbreviated FPTP or FPP) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point on the track (in this case a plurality of votes), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose (that is, the payoff is "winner-takes-all"). ... It is often claimed by United States Democrats that Democrat Al Gore lost the 2000 Presidential Election to Republican George W. Bush because some voters on the left voted for Ralph Nader of the Green Party, who exit polls indicated would have preferred Gore to Bush 45 percent to 27 percent, with the rest not voting in Nader's absence.

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• An Inconvenient Truth,
• Face perception,
• Esperanto grammar,
• Richard Marius,
• Lyndon B. Johnson,
• Monday Night Football,
• Media bias,
• Conrad Burns,
• Plurality voting system