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...Swing voters hold a nation's secrets. Sometimes they are important because of what they tell us about an election. But when the race isn't even close, they are important because of what they tell us about ourselves...
...have already been spent hunting for her, with an intensity matched only by her immunity to the whole effort. Campaign consultants are stalking her, the conventions were staged for her, the speeches scripted for her, the ads aimed right at her. And because she is so different from the swing voter who shaped this nation for a generation, she has miniaturized its politics into a kitchen-table bargaining session over what it might take to help her get through...
...trace this political transformation, TIME set out to find a woman who could tell the story of this election by telling the story of her life. Lori Lucas lives in Shrewsbury, Missouri, an undecided voter in a bellwether town in the ultimate swing state. She is not just an archetype; she's a revelation, a spirited wreck of political contradiction. She's an unmarried mom who thinks the country is on the wrong track because the family unit has broken down. She drives a gas-guzzling station wagon because it's safe but worries so much about the environment that...
...golf, the average 18-hole round at a regular pace ought to take three hours. But what inevitably ends up happening is a disastrous four-and-a-half hour round. Guided by the virtue of patience, golfers address the ball for hours rather than simply relaxing and taking a swing. The practice of impatience does not demand an abandonment of prudence and discretion. In fact, it requires just the opposite...
LYNDHURST, New Jersey: Trailing by double-digits in the polls with less than a month until election day, Bob Dole has decided to try a little less tenderness. On a campaign swing through New Jersey, Dole said he would hit harder at President Clinton's ethics in next Wednesday's Presidential debate in San Diego. Dole responded to a shouted plea for him to "Get Bozo out of the White House," with "Bozo's on his way out." The feisty remark signals a harsher turn in Dole's campaign style as he is seen to be running out of time...