Word: stumps
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...ROUND 6: Here in the last 15 minutes of the debate, I'm stuck by the different confidence levels of the two guys. Bush, who can be commanding on the stump, seems faltering, hesitant. Gore is brimming with confidence. Incredibly, Bush hasn't had Gore on the run once. Gore's relentless assaults have made a difference...
After 90 minutes of presidential debate that ranged across nearly every imaginable issue, called at least a dozen Real Americans by their first names, veered persistently into stump-speech boilerplate, and strained and strained at being interesting political television but never quite got there, Al Gore and George W. Bush are more deadlocked than ever...
...numbers sound gigantic, awesome, mind boggling. Match them up against the stunning dimensions of the U.S. economy, though, and the figures the Al Gore and George W. Bush campaigns brandish on the stump suddenly shrink to a kind of marginal gloss. That was one of the first and most often made observations by TIME's Board of Economists when asked to weigh the presidential candidates' competing programs in the national balance. David Wyss, the nonpartisan chief economist of Standard & Poor, prices Bush's and Gore's tax and spending plans at around $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. That...
Admit it, you snickered when you first heard that women would be weight lifting in these Olympics. You imagined huge hairy-chested Belarussians with no teeth who built up muscle from pushing a handheld stump-jump plough. But I have seen this sport and, reader, it is glorious. This is the kind of sport for which the Olympics were invented...
...people I talked to this summer, from my mom to my barber, believed the last myth about the "Clinton/Gore economic miracle." Yet they were wrong. Which is why, when you hear the talking heads at the stump, it always helps to be a little skeptical...