Word: nra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...banner ads. GOP rival John McCain previously experimented with banners, but not at the same level of marketing sophistication - Bush's people cross-referenced lists of registered Republican and Independent voters with lists of users of various web sites. A web surfer who, for example, clicks on the Nashua NRA chapter page in the coming weeks could be met by a blinking banner asking "How much will the BUSH TAX CUT save YOU?" If he clicks on the ad, a pop-up calculator will quickly compute his family's savings under Bush's plan...
...also pushed for gun control, but said that nothing will happen until big money interests are taken out of politics and power taken from the lobbies, particularly the NRA...
While Wirzbicki asserts that conservatives aren't socially isolated on campus, I can't remember the last time I saw a card-carrying member of the NRA hanging out with a hippie or seeing Professor Harvey C. Mansfield and Professor Cornel West having a cold one at the Grille...
...does not escape Al Gore in the months ahead. What could have stopped the anti-Baptist? Police took several hours to take a look at his body, fearing that the corpse was booby-trapped, and they do not yet know whether he had a license for his weapon, an NRA bumper sticker on his car, or the membership card of some atheist terror cell...
...must remember, however, that the NRA too is a grass-roots organization. A great deal of money and the face and voice of its president, Charlton Heston, may make it seem like something more grand and monumental, but its true effectiveness exists in small local communities where one or two thousand votes can swing an election. People who own guns and who ordinarily might never vote at all become convinced that their freedoms, their very being, will be jeopardized if they do not vote Smith in and Jones out. Once convinced, these folks in effect become the NRA...