a long time altman fan and i rent the video of tanner 88 just in time for the final day of the 2000 election . in fact and on election night and i be flip back and forth between altman clever take on presidential politics and the real thing and and i can tell you and tanner 88 be much good television . the mini series of 10 half hour episode be available on three vhs tape . it be excellent and overall . especially good be the way it puncture so many of the hot air balloon and pretension of american politics and but clearly sympathize with the people who want to believe in it . we see a liberal democratic candidate and jack tanner and play skillfully by michael murphy and go through a campaign from the new hampshire primary to the end of the convention . typical of the series and tanner be on the one hand shallow and full of empty rhetoric and while also sincere and idealistic and sometimes inspire . tanner campaign manager and a woman and be also extremely smart and more than a little cynical and but capable of be inspire by her candidate whose weakness she know very well . the first half of the series and which take place in new hampshire and be extremely funny and especially in show how the citizen there have become inure to the hoopla of the candidate and the medium . also outstanding in this series be the way the working press be portray a part of the life of the campaign these be real people and not just role player . the last two episode and at the convention and lack the bite of the first five or or six and and could be skip without lose much .