Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battleground states, especially the Big Three of Texas, Illinois and California. Together they cast 100 electoral votes, or 37% of the total needed for victory. It is difficult to see how either candidate can gain the White House without winning at least two. And in all three, the race opens as a toss...
Hyperbolic, perhaps, coming from a man whose public life over the past year has included announcing his candidacy and then dropping out of the race for President and chairing the judiciary committee hearings that denied former Solicitor General Robert Bork a seat on the Supreme Court. But this is Biden's first event since February, when he was felled by a life-threatening brain aneurysm. Before he returns to Washington, before he bangs the gavel to open an important set of foreign policy hearings this Wednesday, before he grants any interviews, he wanted to come to the place where...
...looks back not in anger but in wonder at how fate has its way with a man. "There is no doubt -- the doctors have no doubt -- that had I remained in ! the race, I'd be dead," he says. A headache, which he thought was a pinched nerve, came during what would have been his peak campaigning time in Iowa. Had he still been running, he says, he would have toughed...
...that matter, are personalities.) But the emotions Bush is stirring up in the name of American patriotism are ugly and -- dare I say it -- un- American. What unites the pledge nonsense, the furlough business, the attacks on the American Civil Liberties Union, the scare stories about a race of mythic bogeymen called liberals is an effort to induce a fever of "us" vs. "them" majoritarianism...
Political polls, in general, should be presented to the public with more warnings than cigarette packs. Besides the standard notice about potential sampling error, surveys can be skewed by ephemeral news flurries. Further, they cannot predict election results; "horse-race" studies merely provide a snapshot of voter sentiment at one instant in a long campaign. But even that modest claim is shaky in the tumult of Campaign '88. The profusion of polls this summer resembles not so much an album of still photographs as a movie of Keystone Kops at their most kinetic. "Hardly an hour goes by without...