Word: bradleys
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Instead, Bill Bradley has emerged as a viable Democratic alternative...
...Gore] really looks like a new candidate...[but] he looked like he was trying too hard," he said, while Bradley appeared "aloof" but more confident...
...people that the country isn't rocking for him. Since shelving Shania, Gore has used the soul anthem Love Train--a call to unity that rings hollow with Democrats still divided about the nomination. But there's hope. At the New Hampshire "town hall" forum with Gore and Bill Bradley last week, it was obvious what song captures Gore's new mood: the old Motown hit Ain't Too Proud...
...Dartmouth College's Moore Theater, grinning fiercely and sweating like the hardest-working man in show business, Gore seemed stoked enough to belt the words himself: "I know you wanna leave me,/ but I refuse to let you go." He wanted to tell voters who have dumped him for Bradley that he'll do anything to win them back. Of course, since this was Al Gore talking, the words came out a bit differently: "I would like to have your support for me," and "Fighting for all the people--that's what I want to do," and finally, "I would...
There's some evidence that it might. In the month since Gore began rending his garments in public, his poll numbers have stabilized against Bradley's and risen against George W. Bush's. Americans tend to reward candidates who are hungry for the job--fire in the belly and all that. But if anyone can prove it's possible to try too hard, it's Gore. And if anyone can prove the counterargument--that a cool new paradigm is emerging this year--it may be Bradley, the candidate who seems not to be trying at all. He is too proud...