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...sultry Monday afternoon after a morning in which he was up before dawn to appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters on the boat, headlined a rally in Quincy, Ill., conducted an onboard town hall meeting about tax reform, and I think sometime in there made and packed some very nice fried-chicken box lunches for a hungry press corps...
...news poll... Boing! Gore takes 50-45 lead over Bush, 46-44 in a four-way race, "by easing doubts about his leadership ability and personal style while establishing himself with voters as the candidate best able to deal with the economy, education and health care reform." Busy week...
...Gail Collins sums up the season - "we now understand that George W. Bush likes nothing better than to hang around with members of minority groups, that Al Gore likes nothing better than to hang around with Tipper, and that everybody in the Reform Party is crazy" - and takes your questions (really hers). Very original use of "Survivor" as comic conceit...
CAMPAIGN FINANCE He says he brings "the passion that comes from personal experience" to the battle for reform, promising that the first bill he will sign into law will be a ban on soft money. He wants to create a "Democracy Endowment" to help pay the costs of campaigns...
...Campaign finance reform is my favorite issue. If this former solicitor-in-chief can somehow convince me of his sincerity, that will go a long way. (Certainly there is no competition from Bush to be the president who gets McCain-Feingold through the McConnell roadblock.) Likewise the environment, where Gore's sincerity is unquestioned but his ability to effect real change is questionable. The corporation-bashing is a turn-off -this economy wouldn't have boomed much without big business - but then again, corporations are quite able to take care of themselves...