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...before all those primary debates last winter, Bush, now the self-declared underdog, has been drilling like an Olympic athlete for the three debates he faces on Oct. 3, 11 and 17. He has been practicing since May at his ranch, the Governor's mansion and other locations in Austin. Some sessions have included a table and podium and an Al Gore, played by New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg. A dress rehearsal will be held one night at 9 to help the notoriously early riser adjust to the contest's kickoff time, which falls only half an hour before...
...called Jeffrey Tulis, a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Rhetorical Presidency. He scoffed at the idea of trying to elevate the level of political discourse in our home. First of all, he said, "young kids' reaction to politics is much like their reaction to sports and religion. They just want to know, 'Whom do we root for?'" Besides, local elections usually mean more to children than national ones. Tulis' daughter Elizabeth, for instance, now a college senior, was thrilled when Dad took her out of elementary school to join then Texas...
...material. The one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That fact alone started a torrent of speculation. The storm intensified with reports that the FBI had identified a suspect within the Bush campaign. That cued Austin to counter indignantly with its own unfounded accusation--that the Clinton-Gore Justice Department was leaking lies to sow chaos in the Bush campaign. In Goreland, they were sweating their own scandal. Gore officials suspended a mid-level aide who admitted to ABC News that he had boasted to a friend that...
...video clip of a Gore debate making its way through the e-mail system at Bush's Austin headquarters gives you a sense of how the team sizes up its opponent. "I have never said anything I knew to be untrue," says Gore as he defends himself against Bill Bradley's claim that he has distorted his health care plan. "I have never said anything that is untrue." The boast is a vexing reminder that the Bush campaign, like Bradley's, has been unable to make Gore's credibility an issue. But it is also a claim they hope...
...called Jeffrey Tulis, a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and author of "The Rhetorical Presidency." He scoffed at the idea of trying to elevate the level of political discourse in our home. First of all, he said, "young kids' reaction to politics is much like their reaction to sports and religion. They just want to know, 'Whom do we root for?'" Besides, local elections usually mean more to children than national ones. Tulis' daughter Elizabeth, for instance, now a college senior, was thrilled when Dad took her out of elementary school to join then Texas...