Word: veep
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...delegations, and they will probably keep this slim advantage. But would House members feel obliged to follow the wishes of their states, their districts or their parties, all of which could be in conflict? Or would they support whoever won the popular vote? Meanwhile, the Senate would pick the Veep. Senators would vote individually. But after the election, which party will control that chamber...
...favor, Gore has returned as the hard-charging populist, a pose that helped revive his campaign after the Democratic convention. "He knew he'd gone too far in the second debate, and he had to repair the damage," says a top Gore adviser of the matchup, where the veep appeared too docile. "And he'd had it with this idea there were no differences and this was about who's a nice guy. He wanted to show that there were differences, and they were serious." Without someone in the public arena slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will...
...This presented the veep with his big chance to pull the "just folks" response: "I don?t know about all these percentages he?s tossing out." Lehrer pushed Bush back to Gore?s accusation, leaving the Governor looking defensive and slightly...
Cheney, chosen for his governing potential and his Desert Storm credentials, was preceded onstage by a onetime Veep contender, Governor Tom Ridge. The Governor spoke more than twice as long as the candidate did, and with 10 times the animation. When his brief turn came, Cheney ventured out from behind the lectern with a hand mike, but this just gave him the air of an infomercial host faking enthusiasm for his product. He concentrated largely on the campaign's latest theme--"education recession"--and then touted the benefits of joining the military. A student asked Cheney what he would...
...subject of "missed opportunities" has become one of George W. Bush's favorite lines of attack - a pithy way to hit a two-term incumbent veep when starts bragging about his approach to problems yet unsolved. But in a debate in which Bush mostly held up under fire from the heavily favored Gore, the Texas governor had a few missed opportunities of his own. Not flubs, not slip-ups - they're easy to find on both sides - but chances to turn Gore's eager aggressiveness against him. And maybe even win the thing...