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That task fell to Coelho, the wiry, intense former Congressman and backroom operator who had joined Gore's team in June. Coelho had been working to wrest Gore free from the office he inhabited. That was harder than it may sound. The Vice President's staff had such a tight grip on the candidate that top campaign officials sometimes couldn't get Gore's schedule. Coelho banished nearly all the White House aides from Air Force Two and froze out Gore's small army of ad hoc advisers--a dozen former aides who currently work as lobbyists, and showed...
...have worried them more. "There are artful ways of making this work," chirped a senior Bush official, "but McCain is inartful." Bush allies delighted in pointing out the inconsistencies that have been piling up for a while now. McCain attacked Bush for speaking at Bob Jones University, even though Congressman Lindsey Graham, who was never far from McCain's side all through South Carolina, received an honorary degree there last year. McCain attacked Robertson, even though when the Senator appeared on the 700 Club in 1995 he had nothing but kind words. He promises at every stop that...
Such bluntness, says the Rev. Floyd Flake, a former New York City Congressman, has so enhanced Sharpton's stature that no Democratic candidate would think of courting the black vote without his endorsement. But Sharpton's flamboyant image and checkered past have made him an easy target for right-wingers to use against their political enemies. For example, after Bill Bradley assailed George W. Bush for hustling votes at South Carolina's Bob Jones University, which still bans interracial dating, conservative pundit George F. Will homed in on Bradley's meetings with Sharpton. Noting that Sharpton "associated with a colossal...
During my sinking search for anyone acutely tuned in to the presidential primary, I put out an SOS to the district's Congressman, Ed Royce. "Ed, I'm on the streets of Fullerton and can't find anything but YES ON PROP. 22 signs." The only passion in California politics right now is wrapped up in a proposition that wants to make sure gays don't walk the aisle. "Go to the Brea Community Center," advised Royce, a Bush supporter. Republican women were gathering for their monthly meeting, he said, and they would definitely be plugged...
This is an open primary in a state that's fiercely independent and downright liberal (its one Congressman is socialist). Democrats far outnumber Republicans, which could mean a large Democrat and independent crossover vote for McCain. He should also like his chances in a state with its own strong campaign-finance laws...