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KENTUCKY Gore's anticigarette and pro-environment stances hurt him in this tobacco and coal state. It led one Democratic Congressman to refuse to come to the convention in Los Angeles.
So last week Gore picked a different fight. "The presidency is more than a popularity contest," he declared in his speech on Thursday night. "It's a day-by-day fight for people." All that populism, the hymns to long-haul truckers and late-shift waitresses, is not really about...
So Gore cranked up the modern brand of populism he has sounded on the trail for weeks. He aimed his message right at working families who "are trying to make house payments and car payments, working overtime to save for college," he said. Even the New Democrats were urged to...
One big goal of the Democratic Convention was to prove that Al Gore has the experience to be President. Not executive experience, but the really important stuff--body surfing and mountain climbing, making igloos and cocoa and a dinosaur diorama with the kids, shooting pool and watching Star Trek with...
This is clever. It not only implies that Gore was more hawkish on Vietnam than his populist old man, it makes it sound as though he enlisted practically in defiance of his old man, rather than to support dad's coming reelection campaign. We see a serious-faced, saddened-looking...