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...stand." As it happens, the phrase education recession was cooked up by Republican media strategist Alex Castellanos and was so thoroughly poll-tested and put before focus groups that aides can cite the exact percentage of women who reacted favorably to the phrase in each of the key battleground states. (Women in Missouri like it better than those in Iowa...
...Dolliole asserted that Bush needs "a decisive winning performance" to counter Gore's post- convention surge. Analysts estimate that Gore currently holds a slight lead in the Electoral College, but there are enough battleground states to make the election a tossup...
...been that as temperatures dropped and the election approached, Bush would draw blood with his criticism of a Clinton-Gore "do-nothing" energy policy. Most people who heat their homes with oil live in New England, which is solidly for Gore, but a great many also live in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gore had only to think back to Jimmy Carter's 1980 re-election campaign for a time when high oil prices helped defeat a Democrat. By getting ahead on the issue, Gore could defuse the threat while burnishing his image as a fighter for the little...
...speeches throughout so-called "battleground" states like Ohio and Michigan, Bush has stuck to a lesson plan: He says he'd make sure states test the reading and math competencies of students in school that serve poorer areas. If schools didn't improve, he'd make vouchers an option for parents. He also says he'll help states double the number of charter schools in three years. The total cost: about $48 billion. Bush uses poll-tested phrases like "education recession" to describe a school mess, varyingly blamed on bureaucrats, distant teachers' unions, and the culture...
...leads in August and early September, then taking several pages to explain why he's so popular. Three things should make people question the credibility of these polls. First, the results of these polls have generally shown more support for Gore than most others, including Reuters, Gallup, and the Battleground poll. Second, the headlines are based solely on registered voters--a fact that might be easy to overlook, given that it took five or more paragraphs to discover. Third, Newsweek has lauded Gore with such headlines as, "Candidate's speech propel him to a lead," (August 19th) when the margin...