Word: gored
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...recently publicized series of letters written by Vice President Al Gore '69 during the spring of 1966 express his turmoil over America's involvement in the Vietnam...
Maybe not, but last week several Gore officials were worried enough to talk privately of perhaps losing New Hampshire--a stunning concession at this stage--and maybe even New York. All of which leaves them counting on the back pages of the primary-season calendar. That is a far different scenario than the quick blowout they expected earlier this year when they decided not to take on Bradley at all because several key players, including Gore, thought he might drop...
That was not the only miscalculation by a candidate who cites chaos theory as a favorite scientific principle. Gore spent the first six months of 1999 surrounded by a virtual asteroid belt of orbiting pollsters, message advisers, family retainers, backseat drivers and policy hangers-on. All wanted a say in campaign strategy, but few were committed enough to give up their day jobs--many of which involved deep, complicated ties to other politicians and corporate interests. Amid all this advice, the one tip Gore might have done well to take came early on from Bill Clinton, who told others that...
While a bloated, imperial operation could hardly be expected to pick up on warning signs, Gore insiders particularly fault Mark Penn, the lead among Gore's half a dozen pollsters. Penn shares his energies with the President, Hillary Clinton and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Over and over, Penn told the Vice President that Bradley posed little or no threat, that Bush was not as far ahead as public polls suggested and that most voters were confusing the Texas Governor with his father. At one point, when Penn was insisting that Gore was no farther than 10 points behind Bush...
...mopping up the mess that Gore made of his own campaign fell to Coelho, a party operative recruited in May. He has seized control of Gore's schedule and made sure that no one but he and message guru Carter Eskew have day-to-day access to the candidate. So determined is Gore to divorce himself from the details that when his wife Tipper recently raised a question about the campaign, Gore answered, only partly joking, "Have you talked to Tony...