Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks before Super Tuesday, Gore gulped down the favored elixir of Democrats facing defeat: a healthy slug of old-fashioned populism. Suddenly the stiffly serious Gore began larding his speeches with nonstop promises to "put the White House back on the side of working men and women." There was nothing wrong with the sentiment except that Gephardt, Gore's main rival in the South, had long been telling the same blue-collar voters, "It's your fight...
...Gore had a major advantage in this battle of mock-populist converts: a television-advertising budget more than double the size of Gephardt's. In one TV spot, Gore angrily declared, "The corporations of this nation have to understand that they are American corporations, and they've got to start investing more money here for a change, and creating more jobs here for a change." In the shoot-out on the Southern airwaves, Gephardt was simply outgunned and outmaneuvered by Gore. As Joe Trippi, a top Gephardt adviser put it, "It was like there were two televisions, and ours...
...when it comes to substance, aside from defense policy, the Gore campaign remains an empty vessel waiting to be filled. Perhaps as a reflection of the old schoolyard adage "It takes one to know one," the slipperiness of Gore's political persona particularly irks the Dukakis camp. "First Al Gore ran as Sam Nunn," complains Leslie Dach, the Governor's spokesman. "Then he ran as Dick Gephardt. Now he's running as Gary Hart...
...Gore stalwarts are equally annoyed over the way Dukakis keeps lurking behind the trees and refusing to come out and fight like, say, Walter Mondale. "Dukakis hasn't said anything," grumbles a Gore lieutenant. "All he's talked about is good jobs at good wages since the beginning of his campaign...
Some Democratic leaders are already frustrated over the party's inability to coalesce around a nominee, especially now that the Republicans have all but chosen their standard-bearer. But the Super Tuesday delegate jam may have given the Democratic contenders -- particularly Dukakis and Gore -- a chance to catch their breath and remind themselves that a campaign should be a battle over ideas and visions, not merely synthetic campaign messages. At the moment, it is a democratic principle that only Jackson seems to understand...