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...USAT and WSJ all handle the lack of suspense in different ways, but the imminent GOP lovefest tops - and is splashed across - all papers. NYT and WP go with drumbeat stories, arriving in Philly with Dick Cheney and recounting, like barflies back from a vacation, what a strange trip the last day has been...
Welcome to the bounce. A TIME/CNN poll taken in the wake of George W. Bush's announcement of Dick Cheney as his presumptive veep has Bush leading Al Gore 52 percent to 36 percent, up from 48-42 in a similar poll taken in mid-June...
...Does the electorate regret its choice? With his pick of Ford-Reagan-Bush Republican Cheney, and his interview in USA Today on Friday ("People are going to hear at the convention about how proud I am to be George Bush's son"), Bush seems increasingly willing to bank on just that. By picking a veep with so many Republican echoes - and so much more experience than George W. himself - Bush has certainly energized his base. Some 78 percent of registered Republicans said they were satisfied with Bush-Cheney, compared to the Dole ticket's 48 percent four years...
...also may have fumbled his chance to offer undecideds what they just might crave. Not Reagan/Bush, not Clinton/Gore, but again, something different. In their sniping at Cheney, the Gore camp is trumpeting the GOP ticket's apparent tent shrinkage - and then signaling that the veep may go left with his own running mate. Base against base. Labor against management. Poor against rich...
...most accounts, the Cheneys are considerably more conservative than the Bushes, and even a cursory examination of Dick Cheney's record in Congress will reinforce that claim. In fact, if they were meeting in another situation, Lynne Cheney might clash with her husband's running mate on one issue in particular; Bush's Texas department of education is a powerful proponent of bilingual education, a trend Cheney once called "a great disservice to our national education budget." Such an exchange seems unlikely, of course; it would be highly unusual for a presidential nominee to engage his running mate's wife...