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...Gore in Jebland too, hitting Kissimmee and Tampa before hopping to Scranton, Pa.; Lieberman all over the place, in Hollywood (not to bury but to praise, I'm sure), Boca Raton and Little Rock...
...first to trace the Rodhams back to a "raw and sparse" life in Scranton, Pa., where Hillary's grandfather worked 16-hour days in a lace factory and most of his relatives were "exhausted laborers, blistered farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...
...attack dog than the old New Gore) and a new goody bag of policies designed to seize the upper hand from George W. Bush. It had been an encouraging week so far--the press coverage respectable, the stump speech more effective and the rally at the airport near Scranton, Pa., so big and noisy it reminded Gore of the glory days of the 1992 campaign. But now his shiny new message was about to be knocked off the front page by a familiar sort of mess. Tony Coelho, Gore's embattled campaign chairman, had just told the Vice President...
...better off now than they were eight years ago--a neat way of associating George W. with his father's recession. "It's time to say to those who want to go back to the old ways, 'We're not gonna do it,'" Gore thundered at the rally outside Scranton--a crisp, energetic performance that may have been his best since the primaries. "There is a big difference between what is going on today and what was going on eight years ago, when the crowd tryin' to get back in was running the show and ran the economy into...
...Scranton...