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...destined to be a Nebraska Cornhusker, if there is such a thing as fate...
...course, that was not that, and now John Forbes Kerry gets the turn he has waited for all his life. He has told friends he learned something from Gore's fate about what really matters in a race. It was not about whether to run as a centrist or a populist, not about labels or lock boxes. Gore lost, he says, because people believed he didn't believe in anything. "People take a measure of your vision, your character," Kerry says. "They really want to know how you can affect their lives--whether they trust...
...Hampshire, Kerry fared best among those looking for experience and leadership, Dean with those in search of change. Dean's fate so far suggests he may be asking for too much. In uncertain times it's never natural for voters to change leaders midstream, and to ask them to embrace wholesale revolution may be enough to inspire a movement but not enough to unseat a popular and well-funded incumbent. If Democrats are making that calculation, then John Kerry seems to represent about the amount of revolution they think the country can handle at the moment. --With reporting by James...
...Weld's fate in that race also provides an object lesson for other opponents. The debates were that rare thing--two smart guys, quick on their feet, actually talking about the issues without so much as a moderator. Weld seemed to think he could win on charm; Kerry proved to be extremely deft about how he took his affable opponent down because anything too personal, too nasty could easily backfire. At one point Weld challenged Kerry for coddling criminals by producing the mother of a slain Springfield cop and asking him to "tell her why the life...
Lingman suffered a similar fate to Bergman’s in first set against No. 12 Robinson, dropping each of the first six games. But Robinson, unlike Cioroch, did not allow Lingman to establish her own game in the next set, a smothering...