Word: elders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Since the younger Gore's hard-fought 1976 Congressional campaign and his meteoric rise up the House and Senate ladder, it seemed like the political ambitions of the elder Gore--the White House--would finally be culminated through the political legacy...
...elder Gore's political life was ended by his failure to remain in touch with the political currents of his home state...
...Great Panhandle Mishandle, instead of doing election postmortems, the news industry received a spectacular lagniappe: a fractious postelection campaign, made and played for TV. It was Monica with a side of Elián and a glass of O.J., polarizing and interminable, with disputed facts and plenty of lawyers. Elder statesmen James Baker and Warren Christopher, brought in as recount "observers," held dueling press conferences, like Cochrans and Ramsays. In battles like this, television news is a better divider than uniter: its formats, from "Hardball" to "Burden of Proof," are about opposition. A constitutional crisis became electotainment...
When Democratic incumbent Owen B. Pickett announced his retirement, the elder Wagner felt the call of duty--and an opportunity, Rachael Wagner said...
...elder Wagner has staked her platform on a mix of classic Republican and Democratic ideals to reflect the district's military industry and high senior population...