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Time was, selling a tax cut to Americans was about as hard as selling lotto tickets on the day of a $50 million jackpot. Everybody wanted one, no matter how loudly the experts warned against it. Just the phrase "tax cut" had a pleasant, numbing effect on otherwise disgruntled voters...
Time was, selling a tax cut to Americans was about as hard as selling lotto tickets on the day of a $50 million jackpot. Everybody wanted one, no matter how loudly the experts warned against it. Just the phrase "tax cut" had a pleasant, numbing effect on otherwise disgruntled voters...
...then flat out insulting his audience by crediting Bush's winning personality as the main reason for his popularity. (Translation: You're so dumb, you've been had.) Gore trails by 37 points in Texas, and he sure wasn't there figuring to snag the state's electoral jackpot. The message was for the other 49 - look at this mess! Look at these suckers! "The presidency," he said at an insta-forum in the land of the Alamo, "is not a popularity contest...
...million Jackpot to be split by the two winners of last week's seven-state lottery, the biggest in U.S. history...
...lucky thing more than anything else," he acknowledges. "There was a lot of incredibly fortunate timing involved in getting here. You don't have a lot of turnover in this business, and a lot of qualified people lose out. I just hit the jackpot...