Word: gore
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Bradley arrives in Massachusetts the day after two polls showed him to be in a dead heat with Vice President Al Gore '69 in New York, a traditional battleground for Democratic delegates. In March, a similar poll showed Bradley trailing by nearly 17 points...
...Massachusetts, Gore still beats Bradley by a healthy margin...
...listen to the hyperventilating that followed George W. Bush's maiden campaign speech on education the other day in Los Angeles, you'd think the Texas Governor had proposed something radical. "Dangerous," declared Education Secretary Richard Riley. "Risky," cried Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers. Al Gore seemed downright mad: "Bush wants to slam the door" on public schools, the Veep said, with a "back-door voucher plan...
...dead for 1999. Unlike some G.O.P. moderates, Lott claimed he wasn't interested in a compromise--a little more spending for Clinton, a smaller tax cut for the G.O.P. Better to have the issue to take to voters next year. That suits most Democrats fine: Al Gore never misses a chance to denounce the G.O.P.'s "risky tax-cut scheme" and to promise that education and health care would have priority over tax cuts if the Democrats had their way. The only Democrat it may not suit is Clinton, for whom this budget is the last opportunity to get anything...
That's the fear stalking the Bush camp. A private poll conducted last week by G.O.P. consultant Frank Luntz showed Buchanan drawing 6% in a match-up with Bush and Al Gore--with Buchanan taking two-thirds of his support from Bush voters. But an independent Buchanan run could hurt Gore too. "If he runs as a social conservative, it's going to help the Democrats," says Democratic stalwart James Carville. "If he runs as an economic nationalist, it's going to hurt the Democrats. And if he runs as an anti-Washington outsider, it's probably a wash...