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Which brings us to political reality. In a primary where the handpicked successor of a popular two-term president was the front-runner, Bill Bradley had to show how different he was--personally and politically. The only way he could do that was by running to the left of the Vice president. But by doing so, he removed himself from the main-stream and eliminated his chances of winning the general election--which is ultimately what Democratic voters, just like Republican voters, want...
...George W. Bush could go out for a burger to savor their victories this week and resist the temptation to rip each other's throat out. Who would have thought last summer that Bush would have the near death experience, or that Gore, in the course of flattening Bill Bradley, would manage to climb to a dead heat with Bush after lagging 17 points behind in January--and have even more money left over? After their long distraction, the two presumptive nominees finally get to concentrate on one another, and they are losing no time trying to define each other...
Gore views Bush, like Bill Bradley before him, as simply another "obstacle to be overcome," as an adviser put it, on Gore's way to his appointment with destiny. This view is shared by the people around him, who are generally hard-edged campaign professionals. It is not an epic ideological battle; even the true lefties talk about Bush's "extremism" not as a threat to the social fabric but as a liability they intend to exploit. They probe him clinically, looking for weaknesses, soft spots. This isn't personal; it's just the way politics works...
...however, was secular: he was a star basketball player at the University of North Dakota and a role player (nicknamed "Action" Jackson) in the NBA, where he was a member of title-winning New York Knicks squads in 1970 and 1973. There he became close friends with teammate Bill Bradley. Indeed, Jackson was being touted as a possible head coach of the Bradley campaign before he took the Lakers...
Following drubbings in Super Tuesday primaries, Bill Bradley ended his campaign and John McCain deemed his suspended. They bowed out using slightly different styles...