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Campaign Finance Reform...
...appeal of Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) and former Sen. Bill Bradley was their almost idealistic commitment to take special interests out of politics. As McCain has noted, without campaign finance reform, it is difficult to expect that a Congress beholden to special interests will enact any of the other necessary legislation that Americans support. Gore has vowed to make campaign finance reform a top priority and has said the McCain-Feingold would be the first piece of legislation passed under his administration. Bush has been thus far unwilling to make this commitment...
Even when pressed last Friday morning on the Today show about why he wasn't talking about his Executive record, Gore didn't take the gimme moment in front of 6 million viewers to brag about welfare reform, a balanced budget, free-trade agreements, low crime rates and newly protected wilderness areas. "This race is about the future," he stammered instead. "President Clinton is my friend... But I'm not satisfied. I'm running on who I am and on my own." Gore denies friction with his White House partner, and aides insist they're not worried about being tied...
...this world, Gore took on his party, President and opposition, and often won. Fans cite a host of defeats of old-style liberalism, starting with his successful fight in 1993 to make Clinton focus on debt reduction rather than new spending. He later pushed for welfare reform and NAFTA, both of which had more G.O.P. than Democratic backing...
...Even after Bush's prediction came to pass, the famously crusty Bullock had a series of smackdowns with the Governor. "Bullock was a man of great profanity and chewed his ass out," remembers Republican state senator David Sibley of a phone call between the two men discussing litigation reform. By the end of that evening, Bush was on the phone again offering a compromise. "Bullock got back on and said, 'You're the greatest ever,'" says Sibley. Though the two later clashed on taxes and other issues, Bush kept at the courtship. "He gets out of his seat and gets...