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...campaign manager, Donna Brazile, came over and slapped Berman on the back. It was the same thing that had just happened onstage, the victor playing kissy-face with the vanquished, but there was more to it than that, because Al Gore owes Bill Bradley a huge debt. Meeting the stiff challenge that Bradley posed last fall forced Gore to become a far better candidate--to debate important issues, hone his ideas as well as his cleavers, overhaul his campaign and his personal style, and finally say why he thinks he should be the next President. Bradley did many things wrong...
Bradley didn't foresee that he would be competing not only against Gore for votes but also against John McCain for attention. On one front, he was fighting a guy who was overcaffeinated, changing his style overnight from stiff incumbent to small-market talk-show host. On the other, he was up against a genuine hero with the ability to mainline his unique story into the psyche of voters, who knew they would have buckled after one arm was broken--and after five days, not five years. Perhaps Bradley traveled a road too high. Show too much ethical superiority...
Privately, McCain insiders concede that Bush has already won strongly conservative communities such as Brea. They also admit that while McCain is a charmer in person, he's a bit of a stiff on television, and in an ad-campaign state like California, that's a problem...
Despite the guarantee of stiff international competition, Weinstein is optimistic about the team's prospects...
...light of the stiff challenge the Crimson faced, Bajwa realized that the weekend was far from lost...