Word: elect
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush. "I make the case wherever I can that I need a partner at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue," says Representative Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat who represents Madison, Wis. The National Abortion Rights Action League has sponsored TV ads urging Nader voters to "consider the risk," lest they elect Bush and tip the Supreme Court against legal abortion. The strategy could backfire by drawing even more attention to Nader. For Team Bush, the best response has been no response: just watch gleefully. One mischievous pro-Bush group, the Republican Leadership Council, however, is running ads with footage of Nader...
...Gore or Bush, the markets will calm down quickly. Whoever wins will inherit the same right-down-the middle Congress; the next president will find it exceedingly difficult to govern, and in the markets' estimation that's okeydoke. Which is why a President-elect Gore, being the more combative candidate, would likely get his own round of market plaudits - gridlock means guaranteed use of the surplus for debt repayment, and nothing about Washington fills the markets' sails like a really good Plan B - a priority additionally endorsed by the Almighty Greenspan...
...Tomorrow there is an opportunity for you, the American people, to make your voices heard. To choose the direction of this country. But in Washington that choice is debated anew, every single day. If you elect me, what I promise is to represent you in that debate. All of you. I want to reinvest the windfall of the past eight years in you. In this nation. In our teachers and our schools. In our health-care system and our military. In our seniors. In our families. In our children, and our children's children...
...want to make these United States a better place to live today, and I want to make sure it is still a better place tomorrow. If you elect me to lead this nation, I will spend every day of the next four years fighting to make that happen...
...BUSH: Folks, this is what we get to do once every four years. Elect a president. Once every four years, you get to decide who will lead this country. You get to ask yourself, "What kind of nation do I want America to be? How do I want her to project herself? Where should we go next?" One of us on television tonight is going to be the answer...