Word: gores
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...Mickey Mouse Club, Wednesday was officially dubbed "Anything Can Happen Day." But for the star-crossed Democrats, it was Super Tuesday that ushered in the season of anything-can-happen politics. The members of the Democratic troika, Michael Dukakis, Albert Gore and Jesse Jackson, each declared victory as they split almost equally the 20-state delegate harvest. But the fates decreed that the 9.5 million Democratic voters would deprive any contender of the kind of breakthrough that would unfuddle the nomination muddle. In fact, the verdict on Super Tuesday for the Democrats, unlike that for the Republicans, may be that...
...cutting issues, no electric enthusiasm for any candidate save Jackson and his over-the-rainbow dreams. Rather than a Democratic referendum, the Super Tuesday primaries turned out to be little more than a multiple-choice exam in which voters chose their favorite 30- second TV spots. Both Dukakis and Gore invested heavily in negative ads to define themselves in opposition to the pseudo populism of Richard Gephardt. The get-Gephardt pincer attack worked: the Missouri Congressman carried only his home state and faded from contention. While Dukakis, Gore and Jackson all had ample reason to exult in their Super Tuesday...
...Gore, whose last-minute media surge obliterated the ill-funded Gephardt, could point to the six Super Tuesday states he carried as evidence that you can run for President and still get a good tan. But for Gore, who played possum while the others scrambled up North, his Southern victories could prove as evanescent as Bob Dole's I'm-one-of-you Iowa sweep. Few voters displayed any deep commitment to the still ill-defined Gore candidacy; even in states that abut his native Tennessee, Gore won much of his support in the final 72 hours of the campaign...
...campaign is not simply a remake of the Walter Mondale-Gary Hart spats of four years ago. Despite some differences on foreign policy, Gore and Dukakis represent much the same style of end-to-ideology Democratic pragmatism. Gore prospered in Congress by stressing a host of technocratic issues, ranging from the ozone layer to organ transplants. Ever since his comeback victory as Governor in 1982, Dukakis has artfully avoided most of the pitfalls of free-spending liberalism. His major initiatives, like welfare reform and industrial development, were designed to blur ideological differences rather than accentuate them...
When it comes to political elusiveness, Dukakis has met his match in Gore. For months Gore had been floundering as he groped to find a rationale for his candidacy more compelling than Georgia Senator Sam Nunn's failure to enter the race. Gore kept trying to identify himself as a hawk almost in the Scoop Jackson mold even as his private pollsters were insisting that Democratic voters in the South were as uninterested in nuclear strategy as voters elsewhere. But Gore stubbornly refused to modify his approach, even though his record was far less right-of-center than his rhetoric...