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With so much on the line, Bush started prepping this summer and has had occasional full-length dress rehearsals, but the pace picked up last weekend at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who played Al Gore in the 2000 drill, stood in for Kerry, and admaker Mark McKinnon assumed the role of the first debate moderator. It all took place in a one-story building known as the Conference Center, where Bush practiced behind a lectern and aides flashed cue cards that told him how much time he had left, just as officials will...
Were Dean the nominee, the Bush campaign would probably be going after him not as a flip-flopper but as a lefty. Lefty isn't exactly a term of endearment. But at least it evokes issues rather than character. Character debates sank Al Gore and threaten to sink John Kerry now. A debate about issues, on the other hand--especially the biggest issue of all, Iraq--is something Democrats could...
...turned festering thorn in the Democrats' side has managed to get on the ballot as a third-party candidate in 37 states, including Florida, where he won more than 97,000 votes in 2000. Bitter Democrats complain that if the far-left Nader hadn't run that year, Al Gore, who lost by just 537 votes in Florida, would be President today...
...G.O.P. has helped fund and support his campaign in the hope of hurting Kerry. And Nader appears to have no regrets about the hard-to-dispute claim that he cost the Democrats the White House four years ago. Asked last week if the country would be better off if Gore had won, the usually dour Nader cracked a smile. "George W. Bush is an easy act to follow, or precede," he said. "Anyone would be a better President." Then he denounced John Kerry and promised to stay in the race until Election Day. --By James Carney
...style that would also put Gore at a disadvantage six years later, and Kerry's challenge, Richards predicts, will be to do what neither she nor Gore could: "Insist on some explanations and some details and not allow him to gloss over issues." But Cahill concedes that Kerry's chances--and those of the debate moderators--will be limited by the Bush campaign's insistence that follow-up questions and rebuttals be sharply restricted...