Word: final
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Across the mall at Ruby Tuesday, the television was tuned to pro bowling during the final debate, and after a couple of beers you couldn't tell the difference. Across the street, at the Waffle House between the Steak N Shake and Crabby Tom's Seafood, TIME magazine conducted a poll at least as scientific and useful as any of the others you get bombarded with daily. There were five diners in the room. Asked whom they like, one or two of them groaned. Pressed to answer, four took Bush; one liked Gore. Asked, Why Gore? he said...
...race winds tight into these final days, both candidates are being judged not just by the promises they make but also by the impressions they leave. When Bush talks about his tax cut, it allows him to strum all the most optimistic chords of this moment: there's plenty of money, we can afford to give some back to you, you know best how to spend it, isn't this a great country? Gore tries to make a fairness attack, all those benefits going to the top 1%. But according to a TIME/CNN poll last week, Americans feel so hopeful...
...potent weapon in a lockbox. Too bad for Democrats there's a 22nd Amendment that keeps Clinton from running again. In a speech after the debates, Clinton gave a far more lucid rebuttal than Gore--and without the sighing. His job-approval rating surpasses Ronald Reagan's in his final days...
President Bartlet's manic attention to local school politics on a recent episode of NBC-TV's hit show The West Wing seems especially appropriate in the final days of this real-life American campaign. Anyone hearing George W. Bush and Al Gore might think that the big vote we're casting next week is really for superintendent in chief...
...final tip (trust me on this): Don't ever call a teenager Missy...