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...outset, Kerry told Jim Johnson, the Washington hand he had picked to run the search, that he had two concerns: secrecy and what Johnson called an "extreme focus" on the candidates' feelings. Kerry, who like Edwards had made it to the final round of Al Gore's deliberations in 2000, didn't want any of the candidates to go through the humiliation he had, waiting by the phone only to learn of Joe Lieberman's selection five hours after the Gore campaign started telling the media. He also told Johnson he didn't want to see any "phony names"--people...
...President of the United States would put his name on such unrelenting sludge is unprecedented. The Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) send forth a daily tide of tone-deaf, derisive and sarcastic e-mails, reminiscent of the graceless vitriol that issued from the desperate Al Gore campaign in 2000. The naming of John Edwards occasioned an immediate spew-he was called a "disingenuous, unaccomplished liberal." The President himself attacked Edwards within 24 hours, which is also unprecedented: usually surrogates do the heavy slinging...
...primaries, Kerry tacked away from some long-held free trade positions, but once he had won the nomination, he reverted to internationalism. (It will be interesting to see if Edwards' presence on the ticket leads to more tough talk on trade and an appeal - which failed for Al Gore in 2000 - to old-fashioned populism.) But as one former U.S. diplomat warns, if Kerry wins "the U.S. won't sign Kyoto, the land-mine treaty, join the International Criminal Court, or double its foreign-aid budget. I'm not belittling style, but the change will be more style than substance...
Though Kerry did much better among black voters than his opponents did during the primaries, he hasn't wowed many African Americans involved in politics. They say he lacks Clinton's experience and resonance with blacks and Al Gore's record--Gore having been the first U.S. presidential candidate to have a black, female campaign manager. Firing up African-American activists is important for Kerry because they help turn out black voters, who opt for Democrats 90% of the time and accounted for 1 of every 5 votes for Gore in 2000. If they don't like the Democratic candidate...
Embedded in the travel logs are occasional nuggets of brilliant political analysis. His discussion of Al Gore's 2000 "the people vs. the powerful" campaign slogan, for example, combines smart analysis and a haymaker: "The problem with the slogan was that it didn't give Al the full benefit of our record of economic and social progress or put into sharp relief Bush's explicit commitment to undo that progress. Also, the populist edge sounded to some swing voters as if Al, too, might change the economic direction of the country...