Word: bradleyism
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...Bradley tries to be less obsessed with wonkery than he was in the past, but weaning himself isn't easy. He debates the fine points of policy and rewrites speeches himself, which takes time. Since he doesn't have the Vice President's policy apparatus, he solicits ideas from hundreds of outsiders; his staff boils down the best ones. But Bradley is the final arbiter of what's good enough, which is why he can create a bottleneck. In November, he was scheduled to give a major foreign-policy address at Tufts University, but as the date drew near...
...thing Bradley has always been is outwardly low key, and he's sticking to that. During a strategy session on Dec. 31 at the New Jersey apartment of campaign manager Gina Glantz, the inner circle--including Glantz, campaign chairman Doug Berman, communications director Anita Dunn and press secretary Eric Hauser--was munching bagels and finalizing the all-important January strategy. "We'd been working toward this for months," says someone who was in the room, "and now it was upon us, but there was no palpable sense of tension, no 'this is it' pep talk. It was all very Bill...
...genome led to the child-health-insurance decision. Abstractions beget decisions about real people; facts show him the way. He loves to challenge his staff--"Where'd you get that fact? How do you know it's true?"--and that habit of mind has helped him laser in on Bradley's health-care plan, boring some serious holes in it. Even postepiphany, Gore still lives for what's verifiable, for numbers that add up and moving parts that lock into place...
...Gore's people are pushing precinct captains to make more phone calls, getting the unions revved up and bringing in planeloads of surrogates--Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle; Ted Kennedy in the heavily Catholic strongholds of Dubuque and Cedar Rapids--to rally the troops. If Bradley loses by just a few points in Iowa, he'll deserve to declare victory. But in New Hampshire, his victory has to be a real one. If he loses, the game's pretty much over. If he wins, he'll be looking bold as bold...
...Gore was quick on his feet at the Kennedy sing-along after Chris Matthews, host of CNBC's Hardball, asked him why he keeps caning Democratic opponent Bill Bradley like a redhaired stepchild. In responding, Gore playfully kept plugging the name of Matthews' show, to which Matthews replied, "I'm falling in love with...