Word: gores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state as though his own survival depended on it, when in fact the opposite is true? The sheer nerve of the White House strategy left even enemies in awe. "What they did was risky as hell," marvels Tony Coelho, a veteran operative who served as chairman of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "They rolled the dice, they won, and now Bush has a huge mandate. It's not about 9/11 anymore. He is the legitimate President...
Even more than money, political inheritance mocks our pretenses to equal opportunity. Anyone can grow up to be President, but anyone named Bush (or Gore, for that matter) has a much better chance. Political inheritance mocks the populist, anti-Washington pretenses that voters and pols overwhelmingly share. Someday there will be families whose motto could be "Three generations of voting for term limits...
...money needed to launch a political campaign that could allow him to make America proud was a much less complicated ordeal than for the unconnected young Coughlin. Fundraising is undeniably a matter crucial to running a campaign. In the last presidential election, Bush raised nearly $100 million, and Gore raised about half that sum, according to Federal Election Commission receipts...
Morehouse would probably agree. To become president, even to become a presidential candidate, is essentially to give one’s life away for the cause. “What you have to go through during a presidential campaign,” says Morehouse, adviser to Gore during the 2000 campaign, “the grueling schedule, the eating as you go, the pressure—the pressure is tremendous—the pressure to perform, the pressure to think on your feet, the assaults on your character, on your family...the ridicule. When you decide to run for president...
Morehouse is all too intimate with loss. The Gore adviser says the final verdict on Election 2000 was “the loss of a dream...