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...early to predict, but right now his chances of being reelected are very dim. He succeeded in uniting the politicians, but the man in the street dislikes him and disagrees with him. He wasn't born to be a statesman; he was born to be a soldier...
...test might be intellectual rather than physical. Ask the boys to solve a riddle. (Let's have no captious cracks about how this would stack the game against poor dim W. Remember when everyone said that Gore would mop the floor with Bush in the debates...
...these are the professionals. As you've probably heard by now, the stock market, like some dim-witted clerk, applies a generous markdown to what it can't figure out. Thus the NASDAQ index fell 12% during election week and plunged again last Monday, crashing below 3000. It bounced back on Tuesday but was dishearteningly choppy the rest of the week. The Dow has been on its own treacherous sawtooth course, breaking the will of many who had expected a year-end rally to take shape...
...special dinner with his wife and parents and brother Jeb, cherishing the knowledge that the exit polls were telling them everything they wanted to hear. But Bush was already tense when he got to the Shoreline Grill early that evening. As the family members made their way under dim lights to the restaurant, Bush's shoulders were more hunched than usual, his father looked as if he were suffering from an ulcer, and Barbara wore a smile as tight as a fist. By then they knew the race was much closer than Rove had promised it would...
...admit that Gore and Bush are like night and day in many ways, and Nader might still have their respect if he had. But the fight goes on, with or without them. "If you believe you're right," Nader says before disappearing through a door in the dim light of the quiet house, "you never lose the election...