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...There's also good stuff off to the side, including a nice item about Al Gore's ongoing cries for attention, the latest example being his decision to set Aug. 8 as his running-mate date. Irony, anyone? "Gore campaign spokesman Chris Lehane said the Democratic presidential candidate was determined to conduct the process 'in a businesslike and discreet fashion.' Still, the disclosure of the date was an attempt by the Gore campaign to build some suspense for Gore's choice as the GOP prepares to seize the spotlight with its national convention...
...considering that a typical post-convention bounce is 6 to 10 percent, and that Bush - after choosing a running mate hardly designed to win many new converts - hasn't even left for Philadelphia yet. Bounces come when big political headlines awaken sleeping voters. The GOP hopes that with a majority still telling pollsters they've given "little or no thought" to November, a four-day, sheathed-dagger infomercial in the City of Brotherly Love will make a lasting first impression. The announcement may be over, but the unveiling is yet to come...
...fumbled his chance to offer undecideds what they just might crave. Not Reagan/Bush, not Clinton/Gore, but again, something different. In their sniping at Cheney, the Gore camp is trumpeting the GOP ticket's apparent tent shrinkage - and then signaling that the veep may go left with his own running mate. Base against base. Labor against management. Poor against rich...
...most accounts, the Cheneys are considerably more conservative than the Bushes, and even a cursory examination of Dick Cheney's record in Congress will reinforce that claim. In fact, if they were meeting in another situation, Lynne Cheney might clash with her husband's running mate on one issue in particular; Bush's Texas department of education is a powerful proponent of bilingual education, a trend Cheney once called "a great disservice to our national education budget." Such an exchange seems unlikely, of course; it would be highly unusual for a presidential nominee to engage his running mate's wife...