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...Sorry you missed it, mate...
...that Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman, at a table on stage at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, left the traditional running-mate chores undone. They were surrogates for their candidates, and astonishingly effective ones. After all of Tuesday's itchy-fingered sloganeering, these two were almost translators, calmly and precisely explaining what their bosses had meant the other day. It was the traditional debate attitude that was missing - the grandstanding, the posturing, the darting search for that "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" moment. In other words, these politicians were a couple of class acts...
...Tuesday night's presidential debate George W. Bush succeeded in surpassing very low expectations. Tonight's vice presidential match-up provides his running mate, Dick Cheney, with a similarly underwhelming challenge: Showing America that he does, in fact, have a pulse...
Driskell and her running mate John A. Burton '01--who could not be reached for comment for this story--won last year's council elections in a landslide on the platform of building community...
...against Kemp, the mismatched running mate of Bob Dole, Gore faced a polished opponent, armed with charm, looks and football stories, and a Reaganesque ease that threatened to make Gore look unlikable. So Gore started with a gambit his daughter Karenna thought of: "I'd like to start by offering you a deal, Jack. If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." In one stroke, Gore got in a semi-funny self-deprecating wonk joke and got Kemp off his game. Gore spends the rest...