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...wide derision. Just as George W. Bush's campaign strategists take great pains to portray his vision for America as a 180-degree departure from that of Bill Clinton, Laura Bush's public image is a careful response to a widespread distaste (and for many at this week's GOP convention, that's a very polite way of putting it) for Hillary Clinton. And accidentally or not, the GOP has found the perfect antidote to that weariness: Laura Bush...
...influence at these things, and then hits the hard notes with a nicely phrased "Coming to this cradle of the nation's history with an eye to rewriting their own, Republicans on Monday open a convention choreographed to give George W. Bush the most upbeat send-off of any GOP presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan ran for re-election...
...mate date. Irony, anyone? "Gore campaign spokesman Chris Lehane said the Democratic presidential candidate was determined to conduct the process 'in a businesslike and discreet fashion.' Still, the disclosure of the date was an attempt by the Gore campaign to build some suspense for Gore's choice as the GOP prepares to seize the spotlight with its national convention...
...Best Deadpan Description of the GOP Demographic (USAT) "... a slew of regulated businesses will host a bash tonight honoring committee members at the studio where the television show American Bandstand originated in the 1950s. Dick Clark returns as emcee, and entertainment includes Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell. Philip Morris, the Investment Company Institute, the Edison Electric Institute, Prudential, Merrill Lynch and more than a dozen other companies with issues pending before the Commerce Committee will pick...
Television is its own peculiar form of electronic democracy. And because its revenue stream depends on attracting Americans' support - unlike politicians, whose funding is more dependent on delivering donor-friendly legislation - it's even more responsive to the popular will than either the GOP or the Democrats. Therein lies the reason why this week's network prime-time programming schedule gives no hint, before Thursday (and George W.'s Big Speech), that the party currently tipped to win the presidential election will nominate its candidate this week. It's been bumped not just by such obvious candidates as "Survivor...