Word: virtually
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...roadkill candidate: a bland career politician squashed by two glamorous multimillionaire opponents--airline tycoon Al Checchi and Representative Jane Harman. Davis, the state's solid but uninspiring lieutenant governor, was ignored by pundits and written off by insiders who are convinced that California has entered the age of the "virtual campaign," in which elections are won and lost solely in the ectoplasm of television ads. According to this theory, Californians don't follow politics, and the local news media barely cover it--so hiring hot consultants and buying maximum TV time is all that counts. It seemed the primary would...
...state. Sixty percent of Californians say they are more likely to vote for someone who has considerable political experience. It may be a quaint notion, but a track record--crafting legislation, hammering out consensus, listening to interest groups and collecting chits--still counts for something, even in the virtual wonderland of California. And Davis is right when he argues that the 5 million or 6 million people who will vote in the June 2 primary--of the 33 million in the state--are particularly sophisticated on this point...
...gambling that there are enough voters like Perez left in California for a poor man to win at a plutocrat's game. If he prevails, Harman and Checchi--like Michael Huffington, the state's failed millionaire Senate candidate of 1994--will have learned that California campaigns aren't so virtual after...
...features are designed to lure middle-class travelers who are younger and more active but have less time to spend at sea than the retired blue bloods who once dominated the passenger lists. The big lines offer services including playrooms, golf courses and virtual-reality games. Such touches have lowered the average age of Royal Caribbean customers to the low 40s from the 60s and 70s not long...
...serious issue (imminent war) between the former President and the sitting President. As Brinkley writes, "Carter was prepared to do just about anything to prevent a Middle East war, even if it meant working against his own government." Carter, close friend of Yasser Arafat (and, at one point, his virtual speechwriter) and hero in the Arab world, wrote letters to the heads of state of the members of the U.N. Security Council, and later to the Arab heads of state, pleading with them to abandon President Bush's painstakingly assembled coalition against Saddam Hussein. Later on, Carter admitted his tactics...