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...look back also robs Gore of another key argument, which is that Washington is a place where fisticuffs take over when footwork fails, and it is the most trenchant fighters who win the day. In this world, Gore took on his party, President and opposition and often won. Fans cite a host of defeats of old-style liberalism, starting with his successful fight in 1993 to make Clinton focus on debt reduction rather than new spending. He later pushed for welfare reform and NAFTA, both of which had more GOP than Democratic backing...
...boasts that "we take stands without having to run polls and focus groups to tell us where we stand." As it happens, the phrase education recession was cooked up by Republican media strategist Alex Castellanos and was so thoroughly poll-tested and put before focus groups that aides can cite the exact percentage of women who reacted favorably to the phrase in each of the key battleground states. (Women in Missouri like it better than those in Iowa...
...more dependent on polls for shaping his message than he likes to admit, even if there is scant evidence that he uses them to develop fundamental policy positions. Remember Bob Jones? According to the Bush campaign's focus groups, you don't. In fact, Bush aides gleefully cite research showing you're more likely to think of the famous golf-course designer Robert Trent Jones than you are of the controversial South Carolina university that Bush visited last February. (Bush was criticized for being slow to denounce its hostility to Roman Catholics and its ban on interracial dating...
Which brings up the interesting question of influential groups. Not many people own an album by the Fall, yet so many bands cite them as an influence. The same thing probably applies to Sonic Youth and Kraftwerk (although both are probably more popular than the Fall), and to even more obscure bands like 23 Skidoo. Would you rather be best-selling or influential? Answers...
...unspecified retaliation from Washington. The Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by John McCain, held a hearing to examine the FTC conclusions. Senate colleague Joe Lieberman showed up to express his and Gore's distress. Dick Cheney's wife Lynne, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, arrived to cite Eminem as proof that the problem is not just how the entertainment companies sell. "There is a problem with the products," she noted...