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...giddy campaign staff, keeping score in the audience of a Dallas hotel ballroom, figured she had made 10 good points to his every one. "I thought I'd kicked his [rhymes with crabgrass]. Everyone around me thought I'd kicked his [rhymes with striped bass]," Richards told a Gore strategist recently. But the voters were keeping a tally sheet of their own, Richards recalled, and "it turned out he had kicked my [rhymes with bus pass...
What impresses Gore's strategists as they pore over videos of Bush's previous debates is the Governor's discipline--his ability to stay focused on his message and shrug off an opponent's barbs. But when he needed to, they say, Bush has shown himself capable of going on the attack. "Which George Bush is going to show up--the one who stayed on the high road with Ann Richards or the one who was really low road with John McCain?" says strategist Paul Begala, who is playing Bush in Gore's practice sessions. "I don't have...
...says Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes. "But we look forward to explaining the truth." By the time they are finished with three debates, the two candidates will probably have explored every major policy on the table. "But you've got to do it in a gentle way," cautions a Gore strategist. "Swing voters like a reasonable, fact-based argument...
...says Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes. "But we look forward to explaining the truth." By the time they are finished with three debates, the two candidates will probably have explored every major policy on the table. "But you've got to do it in a gentle way," cautions one Gore strategist. "Swing voters like a reasonable, fact-based argument...
...rooms of the world. The facts have been on holiday. Except at the FBI, where agents have been quietly interviewing the handful of top Bush aides who had access to the material. Oddly, one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That fact alone started a new torrent of speculation...