Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential primaries will likely be remembered as having been prepaid, secured far in advance with large deposit checks. Six months before New Hampshire, George W. Bush has raised $36.3 million dollars, nearly twice as much the rest of the sprawling Republican field combined, and there's not much left to go around. Arizona senator John McCain, who at least has the Senate floor to campaign from, is a distant second with $6.1 million. Liddy Dole and Christian activist Gary Bauer each have around $3.4 million; Dan Quayle is closer to $3 million. Pat Buchanan has raised $2.4 million, and Lamar...
...this front-loaded 2000 election season, Bush and Gore have so much money because they are the presumptive nominees; they are also the presumptive nominees, in part, because they have so much money. Front-runners do not complain about ironies like that, nor is one likely to admit publicly that when he wins, he will be less a public servant than a corporation, in thrall to polls on visible issues and to special-interest shareholders on everything else. The task of voicing such unpleasantness ? of running on it ? tends to be taken up by the underdogs, to the candidates...
...course, the best way to silence a noisy presidential underdog is to throw him a bone. George W. Bush has ventured far enough out of smile-and-wave mode to make some noises along McConnell's line ? make a CPI adjustment to the current hard-money limits and require full disclosure of contributors. "If a grand compromise is made," says Carney, "that could be the tradeoff: a soft-money ban in exchange for more hard money." That's still a long way from "one man, one vote" ? the rich will still get all the access when their man wins...
...career in the House, where members have two-year terms, can be an uninterrupted string of fund-raisers. After six and a half years in office, President Clinton is still raising money ? the DNC, after all, needs the money to make sure Gore (or Bradley) can compete with Bush when the conventions have crowned their kings. The money hawks like McConnell are right about one thing ? in this media-saturated age, it costs plenty to make your voice heard above the din. But McCain and the reformers have a point too. If politicians spent less time hawking their souls...
...feel the need to show up. It's good to be the First Lady, isn't it? But now that she's formed an exploratory committee (and thus satisfied the folks at the Federal Election Commission), the only candidate in history with more family-name recognition than George W. Bush is going to unpack her carpetbag and spend some time in the Empire State. Hillary will kick off a "summerlong listening tour" of New York on Wednesday at the farm of outgoing senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, according to campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson. "Over the next month Mrs. Clinton will travel...