Word: gore
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Meanwhile, Bradley has a new bounce in his step. Where Iowa Democrats grumble that they have seen little of Gore, Bradley is making the union-hall rounds. Former Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson, who played with Bradley on the New York Knicks, will lend an assist, even giving pep talks to campaign workers. His first-quarter fund raising is likely to approach $4 million, proving he can play this game. A new TIME/CNN poll has Bradley cutting the gap 14 points between Gore and him, to 49% to 29%, in three weeks, raising a question: Are Gore's numbers down...
...know surprisingly little about him, considering that he has run three national campaigns and has figured in every big Clinton decision. "He's still an empty picture frame," says Harvard law professor Chris Edley, a regular at the strategy sessions that take place every two weeks or so at Gore's mansion. The plan is simple: grab credit for the good that has happened under Clinton, maintain distance from the bad and deliver a rationale that Gore is the right person to carry the country forward...
Latching onto the mantle of a popular President should not be so difficult. Clinton has gladly shared kudos for the economy with Gore, handing off such happy tasks as announcing fresh indicators of how rosy it all is. But cloning works only to a point. Clinton won voters' hearts with his poll-tested, microbrewed policies, but it can be jarring--or laughable--to see someone with a reputation for deep thought on arms control and the environment elbow aside Cabinet Secretaries to take a bow for improving concrete pavements, increasing lost-luggage compensation and offering a three-digit phone number...
...overused word for that something is vision, and you can hear the Vice President struggling to lay out his in the stump speech he has been test-driving recently in Iowa and New Hampshire. For better or worse, Gore himself came up with his new slogan, "Stand with me," a heavy-handed reminder of Gore's fidelity to the President through the rough sledding of the past year. But the issue now is not Gore's loyalty but his identity, so he rarely mentions Clinton directly. He is also branching out, morphing his well-known stands on the environment...
That's where Gore has always had problems. Someone on his staff once had to tell him, "Sir, people think you clap funny. Put your fingers together." His pedantic style more often enervates than inspires. Last week in Sioux Falls, S.D., he drained the energy from a gymnasium full of 600 elementary schoolers by quizzing them on the merits of smaller class size. Four days later in New Hampshire, he numbed an expectant audience, which had come to hear about long-term health care, by opening his presentation with a long, awkward tutorial on Kosovo...