Word: detours
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...poll he drew only 78% of core Democrats. Bush's is so hungry to win it put its differences aside long ago: Bush has the support of 95% of the G.O.P. base, and so has been able to run a general-election campaign for a year, with a small detour through South Carolina. Even the right wing wants victory enough to do anything and say nothing. You didn't see Charlton Heston onstage in Philadelphia; you couldn't miss Jesse Jackson in Los Angeles...
...spent their time rebutting Gore and explaining (and then explaining again) Bush's plan. This marked the campaign's first serious message derailment since last February, when Bush visited Bob Jones University while slugging it out with John McCain in the South Carolina primary. After a less than lucid detour into budget baselines, tax cuts and available surpluses during a stump speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Bush brought the issue up again, unprompted, on his campaign plane the next day. "I've got to do a better job of making it clear," he said, launching into another muddled...