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...Away on shows like the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. A former Gore aide named Michela Alioto described the Vice President's management style: "If you had an idea, you'd e-mail it to him, and he'd e-mail his response right back." Now, that's Al Gore. Barbara Mikulski, the earthy Senator from Maryland, described him as a young politician: "If you thought he was tough as a reporter, you shoulda seen him in Congress... He wanted those polluters to pay. And I'll tell you, he was really effective. He wanted to look out for American families...
...member of Single Mothers by Choice in Hamden, Conn. "It's the same with one person telling me what to do." Yet it's too soon to make any firm judgments. "We will probably need a generation of kids to grow up to find out the answers," says Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University in New Brunswick...
...Bush: Austin, Tex. Cheney: Bakersfield and Santa Barbara, Calif. Gore and Lieberman: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nader: Santa Barbara, Salinas, Santa Cruz, Calif...
...Gore is on a boat, and I have fled up the coast to Santa Barbara, figuring the best way to clear my head in a hurry was to get out of L.A. and onto neutral ground. It's working a little too well - the Democratic convention is quickly receding into a small box in my memory, and in my fatigued and malnourished state I sometimes think I dreamed the whole thing. On Monday, the newsmagazine covers will feature non-political faces again. Tiger Woods will have won the PGA Championship again. And the only thing left over from Los Angeles...
...name of research, I decided to muster up one more night of sleep deprivation and take a sample of my demographic near-peers in Santa Barbara bustling college-bar scene. Politics, let's just say, is not a popular topic of conversation. A gaggle of women I approached clearly thought I was some kind of stalker. The conventions? Yeah, right. No, we didn't watch, and get away from us, you weirdo. Those who took me seriously, however, suggested that Clinton fatigue will not be much of a problem for the vice president...