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July 1: In the end it was a kind of tribal loyalty that swayed Gore. For more than a year, he and Dukakis had suffered together through a mad swirl of airports and motels, victories and defeats. Now they both risked losing all to the interloper from Albany. All Dukakis needed to hear was Gore's opening line on the telephone: "Mike, I hear you're looking for a Vice President...
DESCRIPTION: Number of delegates won by Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Albert Gore Jr., Paul Simon, Richard Gephardt and others; gives odds of election of each and short assessment of each candidate's campaign; faces of candidates are shown in black and white illustration mounted on dice...
Paper ties. Many natives wondered why the Chicago Tribune endorsed Al Gore, who was at the bottom of the paper's polls. But Editor Jim Squires is a close friend of Gore's and talks with him regularly. The relationship dates back to the early 1970s, when Gore worked for Squires as a cub reporter on the Nashville Tennessean. The top editors of the Atlanta Constitution and Orlando Sentinel also worked with Gore in Nashville, and both papers likewise endorsed...
What's in a name? The Secret Service's secret code names for the candidates tend to be apt. Albert Gore is known as "Sawhorse," reflecting his stolid, down-home style, and George Bush is called "Timber Wolf," evoking his slightly frenetic doggedness. Jesse Jackson's moniker is a bit more mysterious: "Pontiac." Says an agent of his superiors: "It was probably just something they came up with one day over lunch." Or perhaps it has something to do with the ads that tout, "We build excitement...
...race for the Democratic nomination is beginning to look like a campaign of the living dead. Going into last week, the seven-man field had finally seemed to narrow to three alive-and-well candidates: Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson and Al Gore. But the Illinois primary somehow served as a reverse winnow, adding to the list of viable candidates rather than killing anyone off. Paul Simon, whose death in New Hampshire meant that he could not win a delegate anywhere on Super Tuesday, resurrected himself sufficiently to win as a favorite son. Richard Gephardt -- who was stillborn...