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...Campaign 2000 kicks off this week with an analysis of the increasingly antagonistic race for the Democratic nomination. "We try to pull the curtain back on Gore and Bradley and say, 'There's a lot of fracas here, but are the candidates all that different?'" Chief political correspondent Eric Pooley and national correspondent Karen Tumulty address the question in a behind-the-scenes look at the Democratic running men, while senior editor Nancy Gibbs essays about the nature of post-ideological campaigning, and contributor Steve Lopez casts an amusing eye on the candidates in his campaign diary...
...Eric Pooley's report [REAL POLITICS, Nov. 8] on Al Gore's "groveling for votes" and Bill Bradley's "barely asking": I would ask, Just what is it that journalists want from politicians, anyway? The newshounds tell candidates who seem straitlaced and unemotional that they should loosen up. When the candidates try to connect more, they're seen as begging. For my money, I'd rather see a politician be himself, even if he is boring. We've had enough "personality" in the White House lately. I'd like to see someone who is actually interested in doing...
...while the speeches shout '60s Democrats, the plan is taken straight from the '90s GOP. "If you look at what he's doing, they're not '60s mechanisms, they're mostly tax breaks for families," says TIME chief political correspondent Eric Pooley. The comprehensive $2.6 billion plan would include increases in the earned income tax credit and the minimum wage, as well as more funding for Head Start and providing localities with large block grants for child care. Bradley may want to emphasize the tax-break aspects over the lefty-sounding rhetoric ? he could be damaging his chances with...
...lesbian activists are taking a wait-and-see attitude over the candidates' positions. "This constituency is sophisticated enough to know that campaign pledges often don?t bear fruit," says TIME political correspondent Eric Pooley. Gore watched Clinton?s gay-rights campaign rhetoric capture the gay vote in 1992, and then saw the President?s inclusive military initiative drowned by the protests from the Pentagon and Congress, resulting in the wishy-washy "don't ask, don't tell." It?s also unclear whether President Gore or President Bradley would have the clout to get homosexual-rights laws passed. "Both men would...
...does. The voters rejected him last time, they rejected him this time. So it shouldn?t surprise us too much." It?s a sign of this year?s supercharged cycle that even a campaign as long-established as Alexander's ran out of money six months before New Hampshire. Pooley says it?s just as well it happened now. "He?s not an untalented man. He has a lot to offer in public service if he can find another way he wants to contribute," he says. "This way he got out with some grace and dignity." And two places ahead...