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...precise number of days remaining until America votes. Over late-night dinners at favored Little Rock restaurants like Doe's Eat Place, they eagerly parse the digits: Are we now closer to Nov. 3 than to the Democratic Convention? (Yes.) Should we count Election Day itself? (Yes.) On the stump, Clinton betrays the same nervous exactitude about the political calendar, asking students at the University of New Mexico last Friday, "If I fight for 46 days for your future, will you join...
Clinton delivered his stump speech with a few variations, mainly emphasizing his "vision for America" and a need for change in the White House...
...brief lecture that was part historical critique and part stump speech for Democratic presidential nominee Gov. Bill Clinton, Dukakis painted poignant picture of a nation mistrustful of its leaders and frightened of the future...
...limelight. Gore, fast becoming the Ed McMahon of political warm-up acts, gave his patter- perfect introduction, complete with the mawkish reminder that Clinton's father died three months before Clinton was born. Then Clinton clambered up onto the small outdoor podium for a quick rendition of his stump speech. Knowing all too well how easily this political magic can fade, he tried to inoculate himself by warning, "In the next 88 days, those Republicans will try to scare you to death. Clinton and Gore -- those young fellows -- will go hog wild, and things will be terrible. For the only...
Maybe something like this will come out of the president's heartland stump sessions...