Word: platformization
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Campaign finance reform, one of the major components of the McCain platform, was the next topic of debate...
...Friday, 5 p.m., Park Street, red line. Trains whiz by left and right. An 8.5" by 11" sign perches on a guitar case: "This performance has been modified in the following manner: It is fitted to fit this subway platform." Karl Swetland wears a yellow hat over frizzy brown hair that creeps out like Weird Al Yankovic's and a pink tie-dyed shirt reading "Red Raspberries" that compliments his acid-washed jeans perfectly. Commuters look on in wonder as the beanie babies in his guitar case stare back in equal amusement. Swetland fights for attention with the little girls...
...incumbent George H. Bush was dragging his feet and the former governor from Arkansas, a candidate for a new generation, was tending ever more towards the center. Ross Perot, a billionaire from Texas, put up over $60 million out of his own pocket to run for president on a platform centered on reducing federal spending, balancing the budget and term limits...
...administration. He said he wasn't going to "tear down" his opponent, but his campaign literature told voters that "McCain says one thing but does another," and it distorted many of McCain's positions--charging, for example, that McCain wants to remove the pro-life plank from the G.O.P platform. That isn't true, and among religious conservatives, it was a napalm blast at McCain...
...platform of campaign finance reform should appeal to the traditionally liberal Northeast voters, Zogby said...