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Kimberly Kuebrich Yordi did not find Bill Bradley on eBay. That's where she found Holiday Barbie to add to her collection of 30 dolls. For the 39-year-old mother of three, her home-office computer was no place for politics. Then she learned about billbradley.com Last week she signed on, studied the candidate's positions and learned the arcane incantations necessary to vote for him at the Iowa caucuses. "I'm comfortable going to the caucus and not feeling inadequate about the person I am supporting," she says of the process she ducked in previous years. "I wouldn...
...With reporting by Tamala M. Edwards with Bradley and Mitch Frank/New York
...sunny day last week, aides to Bill Bradley could still persuade themselves that their man had a good chance to win the nomination from Al Gore. After a lousy start--aimless events in New Hampshire, a botched debate in Iowa, sliding poll numbers just about everywhere--Bradley enjoyed an epiphany of sorts on Wednesday, and some of his advisers thought it might be the turning point he needed. It happened in New Hampshire, when a working mother with no health insurance described how her son had come down with strep throat and then apologized to her as she wrote...
...disengage. Or let them go to a marriage counselor and see if they can works things out. Let them run all the negative ads they want. But let the public be spared further debates.? A debate is supposed to have some discipline and sobriety about it. If Gore and Bradley were trying out for a Jesuit high school debating team anywhere in America, neither would make the cut. They are not even up to that standard of seriousness, let alone to the standard of, oh, Lincoln and Douglas, or Nixon and Kennedy, or even Reagan and Mondale...
...real story, in any case, is not Gore's fight in the primaries against Bill Bradley, but rather Gore's battle with himself - his struggle to subdue his demon of weird things, the dybbuk that, for example, made him wear that necktie last night (it looked like a poisonous snake from Brazil, or a a preschooler's Crayola work) or that prompts him to claim, from time to time, to have invented electricity, Velcro, or the fax machine...