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...claiming too many sports-team allegiances to praising Mrs. Arafat, who had just dissed the U.S. The most recent Quinnipiac College poll, conducted in late February, shows her running behind Giuliani, 48% to 41% statewide. With the mayor leading upstate and Clinton ahead in New York City, the key battleground may be in the suburbs. Giuliani holds a commanding 59%-to-31% lead there, but his popularity among suburbanites--happy he has made the city safe for a Saturday-night visit--could erode if he becomes too strident. Says King: "Even the moderate suburban housewife who gives him the benefit...
...Democratic turf, Bush is sure he can beat Gore. Public education "is a bright and dividing line in this campaign," Bush said repeatedly last week. He called it "a defining issue" and (in case anyone missed the point) "a deciding issue." According to a new survey by the bipartisan Battleground Poll, Bush does about as well on the issue as Gore--44% said the Vice President would "do a better job" on education, and 42% gave the nod to Bush--erasing the usual Democratic advantage...
...night Gore swept to victory, party chairman ED RENDELL was at the New Jersey home of state senator Ray Lesniak, telling him and other top Gore fund raisers that he wants to bring in $45 million to run ads in 10 to 15 battleground states from April until the August Democratic Convention. He told the group he expects Bush and the R.N.C. to raise twice that much...
...night Gore swept to victory, party chairman Ed Rendell was at the New Jersey home of State Senator Ray Lesniak, telling him and other top Gore fund-raisers that he wants to bring in $45 million to run ads in 10 to 15 battleground states from April until the August Democratic convention. He told the group he expects Bush and the RNC to raise twice that much...
...left, the antiglobalization activists who came of age at the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle see government as neither the problem nor the solution. They carried signs saying END CORPORATE RULE. And the masked hoodlums who turned the city into a battleground didn't trash government offices; they went after Niketown, Starbucks and the Gap. The labor-environmental coalition that stymied the WTO wants powerful global organizations that will punish companies that exploit workers and pollute the countryside. Ask them what they want Congress to do, and you'll get a puzzled look. For them, Congress is pretty much...