Word: code
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Well before Election Day, campaigns tend to be lost or won depending on whose vision of the race prevails. The secret code of the Bush campaign is that politics doesn't really matter, the country is at peace, the market is up, so you can afford to vote for the guy you like because we're all happy centrists now. George W. Bush has all but dared Al Gore to fight on that ground, as he strolled down the middle of the field, threw up a tent and invited every voter to the party...
Still, Bush wasn't taking any chances. The day after Gore's speech, the Governor was talking in Tennessee about the nobility of working people, the fairness of the tax code and the fact that after seven years of Clinton and Gore, there was still no prescription-drug benefit "for those who need it" (without mentioning that the Republican Congress played a role in that outcome). And his aides announced that the campaign was buying airtime in 21 states this week to trumpet Bush's record on education reform--the ultimate swing-voter hustle...
...catastrophe that developed at lightning speed," said Ilya Klebanov, Deputy Prime Minister and head of a commission investigating the sinking. It was all over, he said on Thursday, "in the space of two minutes, more or less." The tapping out of SOS signals in Morse code indicated that some crew members survived for a time in the stern sections of the boat, but Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, commander of the Northern Fleet, admitted on Friday evening that no tapping had been heard from the sub since Aug. 14, two days after the accident...
...Both candidates have promised to keep talking tax cuts right into November. After that, reality will set in, no matter who wins. No President can wave a wand and change the tax code. As Representative Ray LaHood, the Illinois Republican, noted after introducing Bush at a rally in Peoria last week, "Congress will have some say about it." Whether or not Republicans retain their majority, it's unlikely that a sharply divided House and Senate would pass either plan in its current form. But don't tell Bush and Gore that; they're having too much fun jumping hip deep...
...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...