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...longer. Rather than succumbing to the "kinder, gentler" image painted by his admen - or, for that matter, to the Bush administration's entreaties to the Arab world to "judge him by his actions rather than by his record" - the Israeli newspaper Haaretz simply went and asked the Israeli prime minister where he wants to take the country. And in a wide-ranging interview published over the weekend, Sharon set out a rather grim vision of an embattled Israel surviving in a state of cold war with its Arab neighbors for the next decade and beyond...
...apple-pie image by juxtaposing his campaign slot with the remarkably similar structure and visuals of Madonna's American Pie video. But Barak's reaction was stronger. His campaign unleashed a series of spots that drilled home Sharon's role in Israel's 1982 Lebanon invasion. Barak's admen accused Sharon of digging Israeli soldiers into the mire of Lebanon, from which they didn't emerge until Barak pulled them out last summer after a costly occupation...
...local admen caught on in no time. Mawkish commercials featuring aging Australian athletic greats were whipped off the air and quickly replaced by spots featuring the same old-timers or parents of current Olympians engaged in self-parody, all the while hawking phones and banks...
...leads section with Katharine Q. Seelye's anatomy of a Gore rallying cry: "working families." The campaign even tested it with a hand-held "people meter," like the admen use on focus groups. Code for "waitress moms," which is code for "populism," which is code for Gore. WP leads harder with Richard Morin/Claudia Deane on new WP-ABC news poll... Boing! Gore takes 50-45 lead over Bush, 46-44 in a four-way race, "by easing doubts about his leadership ability and personal style while establishing himself with voters as the candidate best able to deal with the economy...
...benefits from President Bush's 68% favorability ratings. Internal research has led W.'s team to conclude that the elder Bush is an asset with the swing voters who will decide the election. "They know that the Bush brand is not extreme," says one of the admen shaping the Bush message...