Word: gop
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While many Southerners call themselves "yellow dog Democrats," meaning they would sooner vote for a yellow dog than any Republican, the region has gradually swung behind the GOP in presidential elections...
...that the economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter and that new homes sales in July shot up to their highest level in five months. Before the news about Morris broke Thursday, the convention had gone as planned with Clinton gaining back much of his lead over GOP challenger Bob Dole. Most polls showed Clinton with a 12-to-15 point lead after he had slipped into single digits following the Republican convention. After leaving Chicago, Clinton and Vice President Al Gore will take a page from their 1992 playbook and take a campaign bus trip around...
...jewelry, rings, even security passes, whose metal clip sets off the alarms, while cameras and bags are xrayed and hand-checked. Since some local scalpers have color-xeroxed fake passes, the guards also must feel the passes to check the paper quality. Unlike the neatly organized system at the GOP convention in San Diego, though, which fed the throngs smoothly to the metal detectors, the Chicago security team has no idea how to organize the lines leading to the gates. On Monday night, as thousands of people pressed forward in an agitated mob, impatient delegates and Democratic staff began jumping...
...jewelry, rings, even security passes, whose metal clip sets off the alarms, while cameras and bags are xrayed and hand-checked. Since some local scalpers have color-xeroxed fake passes, the guards also must feel the passes to check the paper quality. Unlike the neatly organized system at the GOP convention in San Diego, though, which fed the throngs smoothly to the metal detectors, the Chicago security team has no idea how to organize the lines leading to the gates. On Monday night, as thousands of people pressed forward in an agitated mob, impatient delegates and Democratic staff began jumping...
CHICAGO: It's a good thing that political positions can't be copyrighted, because if they could, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and a legion of other GOP leaders would be sending bills to the Clinton Administration. Consider the handy term "empowerment" (translation: do it yourself). Bush once talked of empowering the states to reform health care; Kemp preached empowering inner-city residents to earn their way to middle-class prosperity. Clinton Administration officials now want to empower Americans to do a lot of things the federal government has always seen (and budgeted) as its business, and everytime they...