Word: attack
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Mobilizing supporters through cyberspace is one of the great advantages of e-campaigning. Last Tuesday, Senator John McCain's campaign, under attack by George W. Bush's forces for its tax-cut plan, sent out 50,000 e-mails to its volunteers across the U.S. Within 12 hours, 1,100 of them had responded, been given a sample script, and were working the phones...
...decision to hold back was made by Bradley, who felt that responding too harshly in debates would alienate his supporters. In part, he was in a box. He'd set himself up as a better sort of politician, and the few times he slipped from his perch--clumsily attacking Gore for a 15-year-old pro-tobacco vote or claiming that Gore introduced Willie Horton to the world during the 1988 Democratic primaries--Bradley was roundly criticized. (That he chose to attack Gore on two of his Administration's strongest issues--tobacco and race--was just another sign of Bradley...
...passive-aggressive campaign, in which candidates mask their true feelings by saying how much they like their opponents. George Bush calls John McCain a "a good man" but then accuses McCain of distorting his tax plan. McCain salutes Bush every chance he gets and then cries foul about "attack ads" Bush has aired. On the Democratic side, Al Gore says he respects Bill Bradley--and then demolishes him for quitting the Senate, "eliminating" Medicaid, voting once for a school-voucher experiment and supporting the 1981 Reagan budget cuts. Except for that, though, he really respects...
There's a good chance she'll get one. These days, many HMOs as well as Medicare dispute claims on the basis of what constitutes an emergency--rejecting one if, say, a patient who thought he had a heart attack turned out to be suffering from mere heartburn. "We are caught in the middle," says Dr. Stephan Lynn, residency director in the ED at St. Luke's--Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, where the medical staff has been cut 15% to 20% over the past five years even as the number of visits has risen 25%. "I get letters from patients...
After promising not to go negative, the Bush campaign recruits a college volunteer to appear in an attack ad aimed at McCain. She balks and defects to the McCain side...