Word: gore
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...Democratic primary race is starting to heat up. Last week, Vice President Al Gore '69 abruptly moved his campaign headquarters from Washington to Tennessee and challenged opponent Bill Bradley, whom the frontrunner had been ignoring for months, to a series of biweekly debates. Bradley has not responded to Gore's proposal yet, but the two have agreed to an appearance together this week in Iowa, and another a few weeks from now in New Hampshire...
After a summer in which Gore barely acknowledged Bradley's existence, it is good to see he's now ready to take the primary seriously. And it's heartening that Bradley isn't shying away from taking on an opponent renowned for his debating skills...
Indeed, Bradley and Gore have a lot to talk about. The two compiled a remarkably similar voting record in the Senate, and seem to differ on few substantial policy issues. But they stress very different sets of priorities. Bradley has emphasized a commitment to enact campaign finance reform, fight child poverty and improve race relations. Gore's campaign touts the vice president's plans for improving the education and health care systems...
Still, these debates will tell us a lot, and give Democratic voters a good chance to judge which agenda is more important for the country. Bradley is understandably cautious about taking Gore up on his biweekly debate proposal--no candidate wants to let an opponent set the campaign schedule--but the more debates the two have, the better...
...warm September afternoon, the day Bradley presides over his campaign kickoff in his boyhood hometown of Crystal City, Mo.--and the day the chattering classes begin to realize what Bradley already knows: he has maneuvered himself into position to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Al Gore. The former basketball star and three-term New Jersey Senator has just given what some are calling the most effective speech of his career, a fuzzy, conversational, unabashedly idealistic sermon that sells him as the savior of politics itself ("The American people have a right to be skeptical, but I have a right...