Learn what it’s like to be one of the 5 people who helped John Kerry try to win your vote in the hard fought 2004 election
The evening of November 2nd, 2004 – John Kerry’s closest advisers privately celebrated that their sources told them “They’re Crying In the White House.” As the evening proceeded, words like “Landslide” and victory bounced around the jubilant war room. It wasn’t until well after midnight that the facts became apparent.
Just as in the last Presidential Election, the exit polls were simply wrong. As the votes were tallied, Kerry’s “Bubble” - his closest advisors – tore up the victory speech they had prepared, and instead worked through the night to write the next mornings concession speech.
What began as a reprise of DA Pennebaker’s historic fim “The War Room” turned instead into the infamous “Heart of Darkness” - an inside look at a campaign gone terribly wrong.
The film offers a front row seat inside the biggest story of 2004 with unique, exclusive, backstage coverage of the race for the White House, seen through the eyes of the senior staffers & advisers to Senator John Kerry.
The ‘bubble’ is a private place where the man who would be President surrounds himself only with the people he trusts the most. The ‘bubble’ floats above ground, where media hounds are normally kept at bay.
This is the place where a small group of super-humans give everything they have to one man. The ‘bubble people’ put personal lives on hold - sacrificing sleep, health, family, career, cash and sometimes sanity – to work together to defeat a President and lead the nation.
In the closest election, in a war against terror…you’ll understand what it’s like to be one of 5 people helping one man fight for ideas & win your vote on the rollercoaster ride of a lifetime.
The evening of November 2nd, 2004 – John Kerry’s closest advisers privately celebrated that their sources told them “They’re Crying In the White House.” As the evening proceeded, words like “Landslide” and victory bounced around the jubilant war room. It wasn’t until well after midnight that the facts became apparent.
Just as in the last Presidential Election, the exit polls were simply wrong. As the votes were tallied, Kerry’s “Bubble” - his closest advisors – tore up the victory speech they had prepared, and instead worked through the night to write the next mornings concession speech.
What began as a reprise of DA Pennebaker’s historic fim “The War Room” turned instead into the infamous “Heart of Darkness” - an inside look at a campaign gone terribly wrong.
The film offers a front row seat inside the biggest story of 2004 with unique, exclusive, backstage coverage of the race for the White House, seen through the eyes of the senior staffers & advisers to Senator John Kerry.
The ‘bubble’ is a private place where the man who would be President surrounds himself only with the people he trusts the most. The ‘bubble’ floats above ground, where media hounds are normally kept at bay.
This is the place where a small group of super-humans give everything they have to one man. The ‘bubble people’ put personal lives on hold - sacrificing sleep, health, family, career, cash and sometimes sanity – to work together to defeat a President and lead the nation.
In the closest election, in a war against terror…you’ll understand what it’s like to be one of 5 people helping one man fight for ideas & win your vote on the rollercoaster ride of a lifetime.
Posted 11/21/08 by Josh
What a depressing film. The campaign as presented here presented a sharp contrast to the way the Obama campaign seems to have handled things, but I suppose we won’t know for sure until that Ed Norton documentary comes out. For me, though, the most telling part of the film was the way everyone was dismissive of Election Day itself--based on this year’s campaign I would have expected all operatives to be frantically organizing the get-out-the-vote program; where was it?
Either way, congratulations to the campaign on a job well-fought and many thanks to Steven Rosenbaum for making this available for free online.
Posted 10/24/08 by thedoctor
hm, yeah. which results were wrong again? everyone knows that election was stolen and most are afraid to admit it.
Posted 10/22/08 by kfink
YES. Thank you - SHITTIEST video player of all-time.
Took me over a week, spread-out, to finish it - and I couldn’t even make it thru the end-credits...I give up!
Producers
Kate Cunningham
Douglas G. Davis
Executive Producers
Lisa Gansky
Ronald Guttman
Tony Kranz
Mark Patricof
Steven Rosenbaum
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