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...picked up a newspaper? Every day, the same headlines: Gore Smashes Bush Social Security Plan! Bush Accuses Gore of "Scaring" Seniors Into Voting Booth! Gore Kisses Old People! Bush Loves Old People More Than Gore Does, Says Aide! Old People Rock, Declare Candidates! Our friendly Martian could be forgiven for assuming the American electorate is made up entirely of senior citizens...
...play. "I wasn't scared," said aerial star Nikki Webster, who flew on cables 25 meters above the stage. "I was just enjoying myself and having heaps and heaps of fun." If the "Nature" and "Arrivals" segments sometimes appeared like a garish fruit salad, the organizers could be forgiven. "We're the entree," said artistic director Atkins...
...Bush operatives could be forgiven for ignoring their own warnings that this was destined to be a close race. All through the giddy spring and summer of the Bush ascendancy, they swapped poll results like Pokemon cards. On the walls of the brown campaign cubicles at Austin headquarters were huge national maps with a wide Bush blanket of blue covering the states in which he was up. A few specks of yellow marked the toss-ups, and the Gore strongholds in red were so small they looked like squashed bugs. The heady numbers were such a point of pride...
...publicly sharing. Not surprisingly, Bush has also said he'll probably curb his habit of chatting with reporters traveling on his plane, saying these conversations did little to show the voting public his ability to communicate with "real people." To be sure, the Bush campaign can be forgiven for recognizing that chatting to the hacks has done very little to help the governor's quest for that "better picture...
...Gores were harmed in the making of this film." In his last two convention speeches, Gore famously trotted out his family's tales of woe - his son's being hit by a car in '92, his sister's death from lung cancer in '96 - so viewers could be forgiven for wondering just which Gore would have to take the hit this time around (and whether the rest weren't secretly praying for no renomination speech...