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...indication of just how much trouble he is in. In the late spring, the Gore campaign did its research and poked the focus groups and found that it was losing a slice of independents Clinton had conquered in 1996--not just the soccer moms in the suburbs but the waitress moms who punch the clock and still struggle to hold it all together, new economy be damned. Many voted for Clinton last time but favored Perot in 1992 and don't always care enough about politics to go to the polls at all. That's why Gore spent so much...
...knows the dangers of his populist approach, but they say he has to stand for something, and Gore the scrapper is the role that worked for the Veep against Bradley last winter. In some ways, it's a role he has been comfortable with, as the son of a waitress and a Senator known for his fiery defense of Tennessee farmers. Besides, Gore tried sensible centrism a year ago, with lots of detailed, 10-point plans on teacher testing and crime prevention and tax cuts, and came off sounding like a pale Clinton. He needs to get his numbers moving...
...leads section with Katharine Q. Seelye's anatomy of a Gore rallying cry: "working families." The campaign even tested it with a hand-held "people meter," like the admen use on focus groups. Code for "waitress moms," which is code for "populism," which is code for Gore. WP leads harder with Richard Morin/Claudia Deane on new WP-ABC news poll... Boing! Gore takes 50-45 lead over Bush, 46-44 in a four-way race, "by easing doubts about his leadership ability and personal style while establishing himself with voters as the candidate best able to deal with the economy...
...admitted to "extensive sexual contact with women from the host country and another 'sensitive' country while on official foreign travel," the report says. "This included a prostitute, a waitress and two female employees at the facility where he was visiting...
...These days, I'm not embarrassed to tell people my mother is a waitress. At the same time, I don't automatically think of sororities as bastions of elitism and snobbery. The past three years have changed me, but the chief way they've done so is to show me which interests are truly compatible with who I am, and who I've always been...