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...have used the word work two dozen times in his short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation's listening to Bob Dole's gothic baritone and Clinton's pleading lilt had been a sideshow that ended in one brief act of citizenship. Now the President and the people could return to the course they had agreed upon. Is this what the election was all about...
...Democrats blundered into a series of campaign-finance flaps--prime Perot territory--and Bob Dole made his ill-advised request that Perot leave the race. The attention he had been deprived of because of his exclusion from the debates suddenly rained down upon what had become a nearly irrelevant sideshow. As a result, his support nearly doubled, though by Election Day it had slipped back to under 9%--a long step down from the 19% he garnered in 1992. By making his campaign a vanity production, he succeeded only in muddying his party's future. Says Republican pollster Frank Luntz...
...going character, Mr. Burns, the snooty nuclear plant owner, has been recently exposed as a Yale man, as has Sideshow Bob, Bart's sociopathic nemesis...
HALEY BARBOUR Party chair who calls G.O.P. a "big tent" fears Buchanan schism will turn it into a sideshow...
...four years ago. But Democrats have the advantage of being able to taunt Republicans for their opposition to raising the minimum wage, for wanting to cut the earned-income tax credit and for their free-floating hostility to labor unions. Says Labor Secretary Robert Reich: "Foreign competition is a sideshow relative to these other factors...