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Several weeks ago, at dinner with friends who have lived in Philadelphia for decades, I asked if there were visible signs of spit-and-polish as the city prepared for the GOP convention. Oh, yes, they replied. In fact, driving from the airport into the city, one notices immediately how remarkably clean the buildings are and how well paved the road is. If someone in the car were to turn around in their seat, however (preferably not the driver) and glance backward toward the airport, one might notice a slight discrepancy: Viewed from this new angle, the buildings stand...
...coming up on the week Philadelphia's garbage collectors, road painters, window washers, police and park crews have been dreading since 1998, when then-mayor Ed Rendell won his bid to bring the GOP convention - and the attendant media frenzy - to his beloved city. The decision was a triumph for Philadelphia's corps of revivalists, long dedicated to bolstering their city's battered image, and struck fear into the hearts of city workers, who knew the spotlight would cast an unforgiving glare on urban blight. And that meant a marathon of scrubbing, painting, trimming and pruning... not to mention...
...Gore isn't after Bush on foreign policy - rather, how to spend the surplus and caretake the boom could be the national issue of the rest of the election. In Kasich Bush gets the resident GOP expert with the number-crunching skills to make Bush's tax cuts and spending plans look as responsible as Gore's, if indeed anybody can pull that off. The Ohioan can also help in the Rust Belt, but Bush doesn't even have to spin it that way. He's always said how much he liked Al Gore as loyal-clone veep choice...
...sound out the Arizona senator on the vice presidential matter. That Ridge was making the call at all was notable. Once considered a prime choice for the spot himself, Ridge suggested that he was now out of the running - his pro-choice views made him too radioactive for the GOP's social conservatives to accept. Ridge wanted to know if McCain would reconsider his opposition to the post. McCain reiterated that he didn't want the job and didn't want to be asked, but at the end of his string of denials McCain conceded: "If I were asked...
That did it. When word leaked Thursday that McCain had opened the door a sliver, the entire city started a mad round of speculation. Anxious to fan the flames were House Republicans who have been trying to put together a Bush-McCain ticket since the end of the GOP primaries. The Arizona senator is the most popular Republican in the country and vulnerable House members have the fistful of polls to prove it. If McCain goes on the ticket they think they'll be able to keep control of the House...