Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Last week's upheaval in the Middle East might have given Gore another opening had Bush not surprised even some of his own advisers with his adequate handling of the foreign policy questions that consumed half of Wednesday's second debate. Bush showed how far he had come since failing a reporter's pop quiz on world leaders in the run-up to the primaries. His much criticized choice of former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney as a running mate suddenly looked a lot smarter. And it didn't hurt to have Colin Powell sitting in the debate audience next...
...three weeks ago, the Gore campaign discovered that Bush had whittled its lead in West Virginia to only 3 points - and worse, that Democrats were defecting in droves. The surge came as a shock even to Bush aides, who made a last-minute decision to dispatch Bush to West Virginia on the day before the first debate. Hoping to reverse the trend, Gore responded last week with an ad blasting Bush on the minimum wage, and the unions are kicking into gear on the ground: the United Mine Workers are considering an Election Eve blizzard of 10,000 phone calls...
...money is going toward everything from setting up phone banks to knocking on doors on Election Day to sending out targeted mail. "I do think this mail thing is a problem," frets a top Gore strategist. "They've been at the printing press for weeks." The Bush campaign has even purchased a coveted voter list that identifies Catholic voters - a "swing" category - in key districts across the country. "We're doing things we haven't done in a long time in a presidential race," says Paxon...
...With candidates and interest groups carpet bombing key markets, the question is whether they are informing and persuading voters or confusing and annoying them. At WLNS in Lansing, Mich., not even the daytime soaps or weekend football games offer a refuge from politics anymore. "I'm sick about all the commercials," complains Sandra Bierwagen, 64. That may be why the Republican Party in Michigan considered getting some votes for local candidates by offering viewers a little relief - a spot featuring a babbling brook and a soothing voice-over: "This 30-second interlude of peace was brought...
...different ways to look at legislative success." Then he counts the ways: putting through $220 million for ship maintenance and construction, raising military pay and brokering a large civil-rights settlement for black farmers who claimed the Agriculture Department had refused them loans and other supports. But even Robb ends up characterizing the list as "a lot of little things like that...