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...were differences and they were serious." Without someone in the public arena slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will be overtaken by the HMOs, prescription-drug companies and Big Oil. "You've got a lot at stake in this election," he boomed at a rally in Flint, Mich., to a screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families, so I can fight for your future." The evil that Gore will fight hardest against in the final weeks? Bush's Social Security...
Barbara Tyler was so fed up with all the political ads blaring on her local TV that she switched to a satellite provider--but that didn't stop the flyers that are pouring through her Laingsburg, Mich., mailbox or the pollsters who keep calling to plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here...
With candidates and interest groups carpet-bombing key markets, the question is whether they are informing and persuading voters or confusing and annoying them. At WLNS in Lansing, Mich., not even the daytime soaps or weekend football games offer a refuge from politics anymore. "I'm sick of all the commercials," complains Sandra Bierwagen, 64. That may be why the Republican Party in Michigan considered getting some votes for local candidates by offering viewers a little relief--a spot featuring a babbling brook and a soothing voice-over: "This 30-second interlude of peace was brought...
DIED. LESLIE KISH, 90, statistician who formulated, among other things, the "margin of error," an assessment of the accuracy of opinion polls; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Kish used his new population sampling techniques in 1948 to predict a narrow Truman victory over Dewey--when almost everyone had forecast a Dewey landslide...
...were differences, and they were serious." Without someone in the public arena slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will be overtaken by the HMOs, prescription-drug companies and big oil. "You've got a lot at stake in this election," he boomed at a rally in Flint, Mich., to a screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families, so I can fight for your future." The evil that Gore will fight hardest against in the final weeks? George Bush's Social Security...