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...Louis proper may be Gephardt country, Democrat country, but the suburban streets west of Wash U. definitely belong to Bush. There are no Gore/Lieberman signs in the nicely manicured lawns here, only Bush/Cheney and the occasional "Go Cardinals." And ravens. Ravens everywhere, perching on the signs, quothing "nevermore" incessantly, which may or may not be a good omen for the candidates...
...last twelve and a half years, Al Gore has debated 35 times as vice president and presidential contender. He's debated in groups, debated one-on-one, debated in town halls and on talk shows. He's debated dwarves like Gephardt and Dukakis, jocks like Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley, wild men like Ross Perot, pushovers like James Stockdale and supposed pushovers like Dan Quayle. He's gotten very good at it, primarily because he has a strategist's nose for weakness and the discipline to keep jabbing at it. And he will hit below the belt...
...Richard Gephardt, the Democratic Congressman from Missouri and House minority leader, and his colleague Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, flew to Las Vegas to pick up a check from Wynn in the amount of $250,000. The money went to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. And this week Gephardt and Rangel plan to return for yet another fund raiser, where they hope to raise...
...that November 1997 fund raiser, gaming executives paid at least $1,000 a person to rub shoulders with Republican leaders Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, in an event that gaming officials characterized as a "tremendous success." Democrats received similar treatment in July 1999 when House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island and Ways and Means ranking member Charles Rangel of New York attended a Las Vegas luncheon...
...there when he was a reporter busting crooked councilmen in Nashville. It was there when he was a House subcommittee member grilling corporate executives about toxic waste. It was there during his first presidential campaign, in 1988, when he twisted the facts when attacking Michael Dukakis and baited Dick Gephardt for flip-flopping on abortion, an issue on which Gore had flip-flopped. And it was there when he demolished Ross Perot, Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley in debates...