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...came out in front of the vice-presidential residence Friday to soften the p.r. ground for the battle, holding a press conference to accuse Republican supporters, via "orchestrated demonstrations" in Miami-Dade on Wednesday, of intimidating the canvassing board into dropping its hand count. Expect Gore's post-certification trump card to be well cared for all weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Way to the Top | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...brother can break into my head and say "Yo man, let's go for the money," and maybe I'll snap into it. But in five years? We're gonna be grown men that succeeded in the American dream. We came from sleeping on pissy mattresses to Trump Plaza suites. I used to be a messenger. Back then I couldn't even get into a lot of these buildings and now I'm invited to the penthouses. I wish America would take a look and realize the prodigal children that was produced from the hells of America. We weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Robert Diggs, a.k.a. the RZA | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...Most voters don't like to hear unpleasant truths. And God forbid you ever imply that voters are lazy and don't understand the issues. If you insist on telling the truth, at least do it with a smile. Even the press prefers this. Happy warriors almost always trump truth tellers. Which brings us to Rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: What I Learned | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Most voters don't like to hear unpleasant truths. And God forbid you ever imply that voters are lazy and don't understand the issues. If you insist on telling the truth, at least do it with a smile. Even the press prefers this. Happy warriors almost always trump truth tellers. Which leads to Rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from a Campaign | 11/4/2000 | See Source »

...instance, one of the Gore/DNC campaign objectives has been to discredit Bush's Texas record, in much the same way that President Bush successfully trashed the Massachusetts Miracle that was Dukakis' intended trump card in 1988. The Gore campaign has achieved its task in pure terms - there is certainly an awareness that Texas isn't quite the Garden of Eden that Bush has been portraying. But at the same time they were also trying to convey the belief that Bush, as a one-and-half-term governor of a state where the chief executive has very little power, would therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This May Be a Pre-Mortem of the 2000 Campaign | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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