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...minds, at least, they were facing the most celebrated debater of his generation, a professional who had decimated Ross Perot, humiliated Jack Kemp and skewered Bill Bradley. The Bush team worked that angle hard, raising expectations for the vice president and lowering them for the governor. In selling the spin, it helped that they also believed it. But after the first two debates with Al Gore, George W. Bush had not only held his own; he had leapfrogged his rival in the polls. And while Gore may have put in his strongest performance in last night's third debate, Bush...
...This is a classic case of being outspent," says Wayne County executive Ed McNamara, a Democrat. "If you get the spin doctors going, you can elect Dracula to heaven." Stabenow is looking for rescue from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is pouring in money to put her advertising outlays in line with Abraham's. "Here's all we know," says Jim Jordan, the Democratic Senate-campaign political director. "After millions of dollars, Abraham still hasn't reached 50% in the polls. The voters of Michigan are looking for an alternative." Maybe so. But whether Stabenow is the alternative they...
...hour after the debate ended. But before Bush's lead in the snap polls even had a chance to mature (or disappear, as Gore's did after the first debate), the Middle East blew up, and the stock market with it. Six days of debate-related punditry and spin cycling has been abruptly cut short. In the Friday headlines - big, grave, banner headlines with the seriousness of death in them - there was nary a Bush or Gore to be found...
...spin doctoring and doubletalk left you confused? Want the lowdown on how Al and Dubya say they would govern...
...Their spin doctors, their surrogates, even their wives - they had everybody expecting a shootout. Instead, anyone who took the time to tune in Thursday night to the traditionally superfluous vice-presidential debate got to see a pair of confident, articulate, serious and dignified number-two men have a gentlemanly discussion - and gentlemen's disagreements - about the right direction for America and the current state of the world...