Word: leverence
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...play rock star for rabid and homogenous Republican crowds, hitting his handful of standard high notes - bringing folks together, trusting folks, rejectin' the politics of scarin' folks, and rebuilding the military - Gore is a bit plaintively shaking the lapels of everybody (make that anybody) who might conceivably pull a lever on Tuesday because he or she would miss having a Democrat in the White House. And that includes the folks who would be happy to vote for William Jefferson Clinton for a third term - though the vice president isn't saying that out loud...
...floundered as they tried to find a way to salvage one of the party's best chances at a U.S. Senate seat. By law, it was too late to replace Carnahan on the November 7 ballot - and it was going to be tough to convince voters to pull a lever for a man who could never take office...
...Massachusetts residents, it will be possible to vote for a tax cut more directly than by just pulling the Republican lever...
...government does everything it can to get you to vote: it even sets up a curtained booth to trick you into thinking that pulling the lever will cause a naked woman to dance. That first election I voted in, I must have pulled every lever eight times. I alone ensured Perot got his matching funds...
...race as close as this, the last sliver of undecideds may well choose their lever by taking one last look around their world. For all the fretting about sighing, sniffing, stumbling and exaggeration, if the world and Wall Street's current state of tenuousness are still riding the front pages in November, this would well be a classic status quo election - about whether or not America could indeed benefit from a change of leadership. And whether in a time of relative chaos, voters feel comfortable turning over the reins to George W. Bush...