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To streamline and exploit the issue during his Democratic Convention speech, Gore tried breaking the tax cuts into the kind of currency all Americans can understand: diet soda. He warned that Bush's costly plan would deliver little to most Americans. The "average family," he said, would wind up with...
On the day after the Democratic Convention, with Al Gore's bounce beginning to register in the polls, the mood in Austin, Texas, was one of unflappable calm. George W. Bush's advisers had predicted Gore's surge; now they were saying it wouldn't last. All Bush had to...
What was the hottest topic on the floor of the GOP convention? I was there, and I can give you a hint: It wasn't Colin Powell's looming Cabinet appointment, or George P. Bush's dashing good looks. It wasn't even the dizzying prospect of kicking Al Gore...
Coming out of the Republican convention, Bush had the race won on style, personality and guy points. But Gore brilliantly used Los Angeles (the family, Karenna's sweet speech, bouncy Tipper, and above all The Kiss) to neutralize the Something's-Wrong-With-Gore problem. W.'s loose Texas normality...
But America still likes George better, and in the USA Today poll he's regained a 44 percent to 36 percent lead among independents, a crucial group in an election some are calling as the closest since Nixon lost to Kennedy by a single Sam Giancana in 1960. Having been...