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...USAT lays out the expectations and the strategy in its good Gore piece, which features this wake-up call: "'The next two weeks are the potential for an open window for Al Gore,' Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster, says. 'Voters will open their windows and say, 'I'm willing to look again, and I'm willing to listen again.' '" But the window, she closes soon after. WSJ lays out the choices with a weekend wrap-up, and this about "consensus choice" Kerry: "But being viewed as the safe choice mightn't be helpful since Mr. Gore is under pressure...
...USAT, whose top three were all on Gore, chronicles Al's heavy workload coming into Los Angeles. Third one of course being Goreveep. However, the bounce is duly noted...
...USAT: "Even so, Bush's selection has affected Gore's thinking, as can be seen in the people campaign officials say are the three finalists: Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and John Edwards of North Carolina. Gone from the list of serious candidates are names like former Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell of Maine, who turns 67 this month, and Sen. Bob Graham of Florida, who will be 64 in November. Those political veterans would tend to mute the campaign's claim that the GOP ticket reflects the party's 'old guard' thinking." (Lede story leans...
...enough about David Broder, and enough about the McCain-Bush equation, which is the number two in both NYT and WP sections. Both chuckle at how hard fealty comes to McCain. USAT off-leads with a avenge-your-father piece. WSJ discusses the absence of Dad's pledge-busting budgeteer, Dick Darman, in Son's inner circle, and the inclusion of Stephen Goldsmith, who's a privatization zealot from Indianapolis. "The most important guy you have never heard of at this convention... worth talking to this week." So that's what WSJ is doing with that huge press area...
...obliged to seize this moment to build a safer, freer and more prosperous world, completely free of the tyranny that made the last century such a violent age." (USAT) -John McCain, in speech Tuesday night...