Word: stumps
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...granted as well, the White House will remain the center of the Bush family culture. But the elder Bushes will go on with their lives, which extend far beyond the White House. Son Jeb, Governor of Florida, is at an unprecedented 70% approval ("Gives one of the best stump speeches I've ever heard," says his father), although there is doubt whether he wants to move up after this term. Daughter Doro Koch is studying at the Virginia Theological Seminary, searching for a deeper understanding of the Christian faith. George P., once judged by PEOPLE magazine...
...against the concept in 2000. This year he claimed he could turn the U.S.'s troubled Iraq enterprise into some kind of success. His Administration's broad failure to adequately plan for the postwar peace left him to tack and turn as the occupation went sour. On the stump, Bush brushed all that aside with loads of optimistic rhetoric about Iraq's democratic future, but his policy is still more sentiment than strategy. Back in the Oval Office, he's going to have to start filling in the details in earnest...
...runs, as many Democratic insiders assume he will. Supporters of Kerry's running mate are quick to point out that the only Democrats to win the White House in the past 44 years--Clinton, Carter and Johnson--were Southerners. They also like to compare Edwards' skills on the stump and in front of a camera with President Clinton's. But it's not clear that running for Vice President helped Edwards, whose presence on the ticket did nothing to break the G.O.P.'s stranglehold on the South...
...scowl and shake of his head, the President ratified every charge John Kerry had made about his stubbornness and inability to admit mistakes. He not only looked cranky but he sounded it, shearing off his answers, forgetting the more expansive and compelling explanations he routinely gave on the stump. As the squalls continued, Hughes stood huddled in the corner with communications director Bartlett to discuss the setback in the making. Chief strategist Matthew Dowd held both hands to his mouth as if in prayer. "We were watching our lead disappear," says a Bush official...
...which sounded nice--except that Kerry didn't buy any of it. When he saw the gauzy stump speech his staff had produced from the memo, Kerry told the advisers aboard his plane--Shrum, Sasso, Cutter and McCurry--that the last thing he could afford now was to start sounding like Oprah. Not while Americans were hearing of hostage beheadings and car bombs every night on the news; not while Bush and Cheney were stoking the voters' fears with ads about wolves in the forest and hints of a postelection nuclear holocaust. A warm and fuzzy message now, Kerry said...