Word: gores
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Super Tuesday's claim to Southern supremacy rested on the assumption that there would be a Southern candidate to lead the charge. But Sarr Nunn balked at the opportunity, and so did former Virginia Governor Charles Robb. That left Albert Gore '69, Harvard overseer, prep-school graduate to carry the mantle. But the Eastern-educated senator has had his troubles convincing voters that he's a good ole' boy who was brought up on a pig farm in Tennessee...
...Gore, like much of the Southern political establishment, has banked his political future on Super Tuesday. He essentially withdrew from the races in New Hampshire and Iowa, concentrating his resources and stump time on the South. But Gore's strategy, like that of his region's, will likely be unsuccessful. In the weeks since New Hampshire, other candidates, too, have focused their attention on the South to the exclusion of the other eight states that hold primaries on Super Tuesday. And those efforts should be most beneficial to a liberal from Massachusetts, and a black activist based in Chicago...
...Gore political message is an important one in understanding the symbolism of Super Tuesday. Gore's stump speech and his television advertisements proclaim his Southern heritage, his hawkish stance on national defense and his willingness to talk tough in a field of Democratic candidates that...
These issues, carefully designed to appeal to the conservative white voter in the South, are planned obfuscations of Gore's liberal past. His Congressional voting record is not significantly more conservative than the other presidential candidates; in fact, Gore's rating from the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action places him at the left end of the Democratic spectrum...
Political revisionism is hardly a phenomenon unique to the Gore campaign--Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) is an experienced practitioner of the art of the flip-flop, changing his stance on such key issues as supply-side economics and abortion. But Gore is a specifically Southern revisionist--his campaign message is tailored, like the Super Tuesday system itself, to attract a certain type of Southern voter. But the suit has proved ill-fitting...