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...show features the country’s leading experts and the featured match-up gets royal treatment—host Chris Fowler and analysts Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit offer previews, interviews and predictions before a live crowd...
...which every senator running for reelection voted to pass, with the exception of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone—as an example of standing with the president on national security. In fact, some Democratic candidates have gone to great lengths to compare themselves to Bush, like Ron Kirk, a Texas Democrat running for Senate, whose campaign machine has ceaselessly churned out press releases talking about Kirk’s affection for the Texan president. Likewise, Republicans have been distancing themselves from now-unpopular notions like privatizing social security. In these cases, however, candidates has been generally evasive over what...
Speaking of baseball, is Cal Ripken’s consecutive game streak really the most memorable Major League moment of all-time? More memorable than Carlton Fisk’s 1975 Game Six home run, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th career homer or Kirk Gibson’s “I don’t believe what I just saw” fist pumping blast in the 1988 World Series? It’s a great record, but it’s not really a baseball moment. He just showed...
...Elsewhere the picture for the Democrats was looking little better. Democratic challengers are facing photo finishes in New Hampshire and Colorado, and the early momentum of Ron Kirk in Texas has faded. (Kirk, who is black, recently suggested that his opponent favored military action in Iraq because minorities would be doing most of the fighting.) Still, with 10 races lingering within the margin of error, every day brings new possibilities. In North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole's campaign against former Clinton aide Erskine Bowles hit what one G.O.P. strategist this week called "the skids" as her lead in the polls suddenly...
Both sides understand that this election will test whether the state's shifting demographics have altered its politics. The Democrats are banking on multicultural appeal, with Kirk for Senator and millionaire Hispanic businessman Tony Sanchez running for Governor. But Kirk bristles at that kind of identity politics and says he prefers to run on issues like corporate accountability and fiscal discipline. He knows he can't win unless minority voters turn out strongly, but he also needs white votes. As he steered his SUV into the parking lot of a Dallas chop house last week, Kirk insisted...