Word: bradleyism
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...that he was not doing so. Last Wednesday on Good Morning America, he corrected Diane Sawyer when she said he had lost the youth vote, asserting that he had "won in every single demographic category." Well, it depends on your definition of youth, perhaps. Among voters 18 to 29, Bradley beat him. A Gore appearance should be closed-captioned with the truth...
This is not to say that Gore is the only hedger in the race. Bush fudges whether he intends to make abortion illegal, as the Republican platform he embraced would do. His insistence that being a Bush closed as many doors as it opened is a Clintonian fable. Bradley's signature flip-flop is on ethanol, which he once damned as a ludicrous subsidy; but as a presidential candidate he embraced it after saying a bit disingenuously that Iowans had helped change his mind. Bradley didn't reveal his heart ailment until it forced him to the hospital...
...lobby during the 1980s. "Back in those days everybody did," says Sarah Brady, wife of Ronald Reagan's wounded press secretary, who became outraged enough by the 1985 bill to join the cause of gun control. But there were a few exceptions. "In 18 years in the Senate, Bill Bradley never cast a single vote in support of gun owners," notes NRA spokesman Bill Powers...
...Bradley was not always there in the clinch. He missed the crucial series of votes in 1985, though the margins were such that his votes would not have made a difference in the outcome. But in 1990, Bradley and Gore were on opposite sides of an amendment that would have prohibited the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines and banned a dozen types of assault-style weapons. The language ultimately became law under the Clinton-Gore Administration...
Both of this year's Democratic presidential candidates have advanced ambitious gun proposals: Gore would require that purchasers of weapons obtain photo licenses; Bradley would go even further, registering the guns themselves. While Gore says he has an "open mind" on gun registration, he insists that the more radical step has "zero chance of being enacted...