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...Bush campaign's 45-year-old policy director. With iron-filings hair and the placid calm of a seminarian, the former investment banker seems oddly relaxed for someone in the thick of a pivotal battle. Gore's strategy is to do to Bush what he did to Bill Bradley--provoke the Governor into policy debates and then strangle him with details. Gore "distorts in a very detailed way," says Bolten. The policy shop must parry those criticisms, but if Bush spends too much time rebutting them, he'll look defensive and blot out his own message...
...Even so, that term--voucher--has proved to be radioactive in politics. Former candidate Bill Bradley learned that lesson when Gore used the word to paint Bradley's health-care plan as a paltry handout. There is a long history of such scorching moments in fights over health-care reform, particularly when they involve Medicare, a program that is literally a life-and-death matter to the nation's most engaged voting bloc, the elderly. Gingrich found out the hard way as he tried to restructure the program in 1995 to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars...
...nuance has never been Gore's strongest suit, and some Democrats--and some Republicans--say Gore is making a huge miscalculation. "You need to run a dual campaign," says Bill Bradley, "and that's not easy to do." The centrists are worried that the more Gore bangs the populist gong, the harder it will be to woo the upmarket independents who are too busy checking their new stock portfolios every day to see themselves struggling the way many of their parents did. It's almost as if Gore is basing his entire campaign for the next few weeks...
...people close to him say Gore knows the dangers of his populist approach, but they say he has to stand for something, and Gore the scrapper is the role that worked for the Veep against Bradley last winter. In some ways, it's a role he has been comfortable with, as the son of a waitress and a Senator known for his fiery defense of Tennessee farmers. Besides, Gore tried sensible centrism a year ago, with lots of detailed, 10-point plans on teacher testing and crime prevention and tax cuts, and came off sounding like a pale Clinton...
Like most modern presidential races, this year's campaign has given us its fair share of health lessons. First there was Bill Bradley's atrial fibrillation. Then we learned about Dick Cheney's heart attacks and bypass surgery. Now Senator John McCain is fighting a renewed battle against malignant melanoma, the deadliest and most aggressive form of skin cancer, whose incidence has grown dramatically over the past 50 years. McCain's office reported last week that doctors found two cancerous lesions--one on his left temple and the other on his left arm. An earlier melanoma was removed from...