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...advertisers give the best odds is Bette (CBS, Wednesdays, 8 p.m., debuts Oct. 11), a sitcom with brassy Bette Midler--an actual professional entertainer!--playing herself a la The Jack Benny Show. The series has plenty for Midler's fans (yes, she sings), but will Survivor's young viewers swing to this boogie-woogie belter's tune...
...although Australians have their doctrinal and moral disputes, they don't swing as fiercely between extremes of private indulgence and public penance as Americans do. The idea that the whole nation and its media could be convulsed and obsessed by a Prime Minister's hole-in-the-corner affair with a pudgy little Canberra intern is, to say the least, implausible. We are realists, not idealists...
...issues that would have a tangible effect on their life--tame that HMO, get prescription drugs covered for Mom and Dad. If his base came home and the waitresses tuned in, a top Gore aide explained, Gore could tighten the race and then turn his attention to more affluent swing voters with a sunnier, centrist message, and the battle hymn could fade again to the background...
Down in Austin, Texas, Bush aides say Gore's new approach makes a certain sense for someone in his predicament, but can't win him the election. The Governor's strategists concede that working families are swing, but they also believe, as one said, that "they are sick of what's going on in Washington." Another Bush adviser allowed that Gore can get some of the waitress moms, but Bush has a solid lock on their husbands. Bush's huge lead among working-class men, he argues, is the chief reason the Governor is ahead in states where Gore should...
...there was still no prescription-drug benefit "for those who need it" (without mentioning that the Republican Congress played a role in that outcome). And his aides announced that the campaign was buying airtime in 21 states this week to trumpet Bush's record on education reform--the ultimate swing-voter hustle...