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...campaign shirts for that oh-so-now glam-T look. Price: $25. While the G.O.P. has no clothing line for the cool kids, Bush did score big glam points when he was endorsed by goth rocker Marilyn Manson. But Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew apparently doesn't think the hipster bloc is in play, telling a show-biz magazine, "We do not plan a coalition of Cross-Dressing Glam Rockers for Bush anytime soon...
...That's because Al Gore and George W. Bush, battling for the all-powerful AARP vote, appear to have completely forsaken an entire, potentially invaluable voting bloc. Generation X, accompanied by new voters in Generation Y, have fallen off the radar screen. And while both candidates could pay a steep price for leaving young people behind, Gore is likely to suffer more visible wounds...
...impetus to get involved is sharply diminished. Of course, in defense of politicians - gasp! - there's a classic chicken-and-egg conundrum here: Do young voters ignore politicians because politicians ignore them, or do politicians keep their distance from young voters because they've proven themselves an uninterested voting bloc whose concerns are not easily addressed in a 10-second sound bite...
...summer. Gore, a free trader, had only 45 percent of union households in June; Ralph Nader was attracting enough lefties and anti-globalists and environmentalists to tip states like Wisconsin and Oregon into Bush's column. Gore's advisers argued that they would have to rebuild the Democratic coalition bloc by bloc, first the night-shift waitresses, then the restless middle class, then finally make a run for the soccer moms. "Look, he wasn't exciting anyone," says a senior Democratic strategist. "He had nothing left to lose. Hell, [populism] was the only thing he could do to excite people...
...future of the settlers, of course, had been one of the outstanding sticking points in the peace process that could not be resolved at Camp David. The Palestinians want the settlements dismantled and removed from their territory, and Barak was set to propose instead an expanded bloc of settlements in parts of the West Bank adjacent to Jerusalem, in exchange for removing the others - or at least removing the settlements' Israeli military protection and offering them the choice of staying on under Palestinian jurisdiction or moving into Israeli territory. To be sure, the recent violence has highlighted a perception that...