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...Republicans have the ability to put 60 people on talk shows on one day and have all of them say the same thing,” Dean said. “Bush was terrific on the stump. He repeated the same four things three times a day and that’s what dominated television...
...many Harvard undergraduates and alums who sacrificed their sleep and studies to stump for presidential candidates, President Bush’s victory last week may dictate their upcoming job prospects for at least the next four years...
Higher education did not garner much mention in either of the candidates’ stump speeches yesterday, but Bush and Kerry have traded barbs on such issues for over a year...
...uneasy. Nonetheless, last winter, moved by a sense that the beloved country is in peril, I put aside other projects, wrote a political book, knocked on doors and handed out literature (now I know how Jehovah's Witnesses feel), donated a bucket of money and stood up and made stump speeches about the disastrous regime in power, its moral bankruptcy and arrogance. Now, on election eve, I face up to the fact that one man will lose and limp away to join the ranks of noble losers (Eugene V. Debs, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern) while the other one grins...
...clamor for elections. "'How did we get on the wrong side of this issue?'" Rice recalls Bush saying. "'How could it be that the United States of America is standing on the side against elections?' It was a very stark statement that kind of pulled everybody back." Bush's stump speech in the campaign's final days reminds voters of the conviction on which he has staked his presidency: "Freedom is on the march...