Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Robert R. Porter '02, chair of Harvard Students for Bush, criticized McCain's "unfortunate obsession" with campaign finance reform, McCain seemed to appeal a number of Democrats in the audience...
...course, does, despite his low-key manner, but I didn't quite feel it until I rode with Bradley one day in his van between campaign stops in Los Angeles. Bradley told me the story of a Hispanic California state senator whose grandfather, an L.A. resident for a half-century, was afraid to leave the house without a passport after former Governor Pete Wilson started dumping on immigrants. That kind of injustice had, in part, inspired the granddaughter to get into politics in the first place. "You live for that kind of story on the trail," Bradley said...
...Bradley spent the week fending off cheap shots (and effective politics) from Al Gore, his rival for the Democratic nomination, and spending big in New Hampshire to keep his poll numbers from slipping. And despite Gore's onslaught, by week's end it was Bradley's campaign--that bastion of honor--that had been forced to apologize for a shrill attack pamphlet it had distributed in New Hampshire. While Bradley's advisers in New Jersey were dealing with that little fiasco and wondering how they had managed to cede Gore the moral high ground, the candidate called them from California...
Bradley's condition is common--President Bush dealt with it while in office--and in itself does not spell the end of his quest for the White House. But if last week is an indication, Bradley's campaign isn't as healthy...
...harder for Bradley to win big, as he must do to offset Gore's built-in delegate advantage. In a wild spree of primaries and caucuses, 30 states will vote between March 7 and 14. "Bill has to be the dominant candidate coming out of that," says Bradley campaign chairman Doug Berman. "In a muddled picture, the Vice President's entrenched power wins...