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...election that these issues should be getting thrashed out. To encourage that, Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection is spending $300 million over three years on advertising meant to trigger what Gore adviser Kalee Kreider calls a "storm surge" of debate and action. With economic concerns now crowding everything else out, there's a danger that nothing like that will happen. But if the candidates play it right, those same economic concerns could be what gets the environmental conversation going...
...Brookings Institution, visiting fellow Ruy Teixeira and Emory University political-science professor Alan Abramowitz argue that the test for Democrats is not whether they can win working-class whites outright but whether they can hold their losses among these voters to 10 percentage points or less. In 2000 Al Gore lost them to George W. Bush by 17 percentage points; four years later, John Kerry lost them by 23 points. By contrast, Democratic candidates in the 2006 midterm elections ran 10 percentage points behind Republicans among working-class whites--and managed to win back the House and the Senate...
...Kong? Be honest. JL: Yeah! Oh my god, I can’t believe they renovated it. That was heart-wrenching. That was the best part of the Kong—that you could say, “I’m sitting in the same booth that Al Gore sat in,” not in this, like, Starbucksian place. I actually kind of liked their Peking ravioli—not quite Chinese, but it’s doing its thing. And you know, it is good, because when you go there, you’re reminded of late...
...over what a bunch of fuckers the Bolsheviks were. They yelled ‘Fire’ in a crowded room, as Ulinksy once put it, and then took over. Well, Mark was a fucker too.” When the Vice President (an unnamed but depicted Al Gore) loses the 2000 election, Keith retracts his marriage proposal to his then-girlfriend Jillian; he cannot conceive of marriage as a possibility in the wake of political disaster. This is the only perspective the novel presents. Though Gessen implicitly acknowledges that this perspective is flawed and at times ridiculous (as when...
...Obama's memoir dripped with contempt for modern gotcha politics, for a campaign culture obsessed with substantively irrelevant but supposedly symbolic gaffes like John Kerry ordering Swiss cheese or Al Gore sighing or George H.W. Bush checking his watch or Michael Dukakis looking dorky in a tank. "What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial," he wrote...