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...summer of the Bush ascendancy, they swapped poll results like Pokemon cards. On the walls of the brown campaign cubicles at Austin headquarters were huge national maps with a wide Bush blanket of blue covering the states in which he was up. A few specks of yellow marked the toss-ups, and the Gore strongholds in red were so small they looked like squashed bugs. The heady numbers were such a point of pride for the Bush team that they boasted about them on their website. "Gore has never led in a likely voter poll," it crowed. The last update...
...Boston Herald workers fill paper boxes and toss freshly printed newspapers onto the sidewalk for newsstands. In another hour or so, the Globe will arrive; The Crimson hits the Square around...
...White's sonorous mythologizing was overdone, the making of the president 2000 seems ridiculously underdone - the election campaign at times little more than a curiosity, an irritation yammering toward a foregone conclusion. Even the summer's mild suspense (it's a toss-up, we said) is draining out of this one. The race began by raising two fundamental questions: How strange is Gore? How dumb is Bush? There are real policy differences, of course, but personality trumps those. The answer is emerging - the sum of Al's weirdness works out to be less than the sum of W.'s dumbness...
...Monday. It's 3 p.m. Where's my damn e-mail? The vice president is rewriting. I consider the advisability of shouting "Gore! Where's my copy!" up the stairs. I consider whether this would cause the Secret Service guys to politely and firmly toss me overboard. I reconsider...
...capital firms, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.) Page is full of wonkish bonhomie, the kind of guy who rides an electric scooter to work and loves to tell you about the time he built a working inkjet printer out of Legos. Brin acts aloof and acerbic, ever ready to toss a quip at his partner. They make a great comedy...