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McCain will campaign with Bush at events later this week, including a stop in the battleground state of New Hampshire...
After reviewing a total of 22 ads that were aired over a two-week period in battleground states such as Michigan, the consultants, who are often diametrically opposed on any political question, agreed that the advertisements were by all standards lacking in emotional appeal to voters...
...money or to "free media" generated by a campaign visit. When Gore's top advisers confer each morning about where to spend their ad dollars, where to dispatch the candidate and which ground operations need bolstering, the map - along with twice weekly polls and focus groups in battleground states - is one of their crucial tools...
...anything like Texas's take-a-gun-to-church concealed weapons law that Bush signed. It's a winner but NOOOOOOOOOOOO... Gore blows it off to go back and talk about his signature, reinventing government. D'oh! I think Gore's too freaked by the gun owners in the battleground states to get tough on this. It's a mistake. For whatever gun owners he might offend - and I don't think it would be that many - he'd undercut Bush on "compassion" and look tougher. This was a big omission for Gore...
...produce a special debate issue on time.com We'll have a fight card scoring the competitors, answer by answer. You'll see fresh-baked commentary from TIME's political writers, a reality check on what the candidates say about the issues, an on-line poll, voter reactions in the battleground states, our spiffy online voter game, the Candidator, and a photo album of great presidential-debate moments that will finally reveal who yanked the audio during the second Ford-Carter debate, bringing the whole darn thing to a standstill for 27 minutes...