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Texas Gov. George W. Bush's speech at Bob Jones University has come to be held as a symbol of intolerance and bigotry that his opponents can wield against him at will. Prior to New Hampshire, Dubya had tried to remain moderate, but his loss forced him to veer to the right in order to shore up his nomination. Rather than lean to the far right, Dubya chose more of an all out sprint. This tendency of the Republican Party to force its candidates to move to the right during the primaries has been its method of choice in recent...
...this reason, Gore, solidly entrenched with moderate Democrats, might choose a more liberal running mate. Senators Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and Bob Graham (D-Fla.) have been mentioned as top candidates, although both are not much more liberal than Gore. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) would help bring the country's biggest electoral prize to Gore...
Still, all speculations on the candidates' running mates are relatively premature. Few expected 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole to pick Jack Kemp as his running mate. Even fewer thought President Clinton would pick fellow southerner Gore...
Politically, Bush has yet to fully recover from his visit to Bob Jones University, whose founders are have criticized Catholicism. He wrote an apologetic letter last week to New York Cardinal John O'Connor, but he has struggled to reconcile his actions with his rhetoric that he is a "uniter, not a divider...
...Governor Bush in droves, apparently punishing McCain for his spirited denunciation of the "forces of evil" in the Christian Coalition. "That attack was a colossal mistake for McCain," says TIME correspondent Jay Carney, traveling with the Bush campaign. "He managed to make a bad story line for Bush - the Bob Jones University visit - into a bad story line for himself...