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...trouble," says New Hampshire pollster Dick Bennett. "But they made some changes. The slide has stopped." And that is in New Hampshire, where McCain has campaigned almost nonstop for months. (To lower expectations, Bush aides are predicting that they might lose New Hampshire, even as they work flat out to win it.) In Iowa, where McCain is not participating, Bush has maintained a solid margin over publishing tycoon Steve Forbes in the final week before the Jan. 24 caucuses. And the outlook is even rosier nationally, where a new TIME/CNN poll shows Bush trouncing McCain among Republicans by 45 points...
Over the next few days--in Sioux City, Mason City, Dubuque, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Muscatine and Washington--no fewer than 120 people attended each event to hear Forbes' anti-Washington, pro-life gospel. In 1996 Forbes was a one-trick pony with the flat tax. Now he, Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes lead with morality. The Forbes people pray that one of those two doesn't become this year's Buchanan, whose 1996 campaign had Bible thumpers jumping out of their pews in the Hawkeye State, where a popular billboard reads GOD IS PRO-LIFE...
...this--but a political campaign is not just a performance for people." "Let me explain to you, Al, how the private sector works." At such times, Bradley looks at the Vice President as if Gore had suddenly morphed into an overripe mackerel; Bradley's voice, normally so flat and affectless, drips with sarcasm and a condescension that borders on contempt. Because to Bradley, who really does see himself as a better class of politician, Gore is an opportunist driven by ambition instead of principle--the kind of candidate who will demand on Wednesday that his Pentagon leaders support gays...
...puck and I caught the defenseman flat footed," Moore said. "I took a shot and it got deflected. I batted it in, or it went in before I batted...
After Plencner started getting hot for UNH, the Crimson offense started to struggle. After watching Plencner drain one three-pointer after another, Harvard seemed to go more for outside shots on its next few possessions instead of relying on its inside dominance. The usually reliable Crimson shooting came up flat when it needed it most...