Word: doleful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sensing a p.r. sinkhole - they know that Bob Dole is not just freshening up his tan in Florida - the Gore camp wasn't fighting it too hard. But if Republicans are successful in getting Sunday's tallies amended, there may be at least 700 more votes in it for Bush. Which explains why Gore won't be surrendering Miami-Dade just...
Despite the emphasis on inclusion at the Republican Convention, Bush actually fared worse than Bob Dole with most minority voters. U.S. Census Bureau estimates project a steady reduction in the size of the G.O.P's white Christian base, meaning party diversity will be critical to the Republican Party's future...
...committee. His supporters had been mostly from the younger generation of Senators elected in his class. After he squeaked into the leader's job by a one-vote margin, elder Democrats tittered behind the scenes, sure he would turn to putty in the masterly hands of majority leader Bob Dole...
...behind closed doors, the man typically referred to as the "mild-mannered Midwesterner" proved just as fiercely partisan as his predecessors. He quickly managed to unify his party against the 1995 "Republican Revolution"--stopping dead a series of Contract with America bills that had sailed through the House. When Dole griped about the way he stalled Republican initiatives by tacking on unrelated amendments, Daschle retorted, "Welcome to the Senate, Senator Dole." Even West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who had opposed Daschle's initial ascent to leader, renominated him for the post in 1996. Said he: "I was totally wrong about...
...Constitution we're all in a dither over gives us two months to fix this. Bob Dole has joked that it's going to take a SWAT team to blast Clinton out of the Oval Office, so we don't need to be worried about whether he's going to give two weeks' notice. No fusion Cabinet, no bonding with members of the congressional opposition, will substitute for a genuine, authoritative result we can all live with, however unhappily. Only when we have that result will the winner have any hope of doing more than play-acting...