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...whines about being deluged with political ads is a crybaby who does not deserve to live in the greatest country on earth. Complaining about having a disproportionate voice in choosing the leader of the world's only superpower? Being feared and courted? Cry me a river, pal. You'll get your hemorrhoid-cream commercials back on "Hollywood Squares" soon enough. (Those automated phone calls, though, are indeed tools of the devil - but we'll get to that later...
...Perhaps Bush senses there's a smallness about newshounds too. Some of us want to get on the air just for the sake of the exposure, not because we have a new fact or idea to report. Mom was the first glamour TV gal - with matching ego - so she would have sympathized with us (if she wasn't stepping on our necks to get to the camera). She loved seeing herself on television, and she loved gossip. She had an undifferentiated hunger for the news, but she had a civics-class feeling about it. She thought all this information...
...Even more old-fashioned is that for all her hard squints into the typewriter to get the story right, she made the Big Bargain. She could breeze through the halls of power, even in her 20s, and she could phone the President because - paging Dr. Freud - she was beautiful. And she knew how to work her beauty as well as her stopwatch. Just listen to one of the letters to her parents about the events lined up for the week ahead. "Monday I will be with Senator Scoop Jackson for dinner. Tuesday Senator Keating has invited me to a party...
...Here's how the Maine law works: to qualify, legislative candidates gather $5 contributions - 50 of them for a house candidate; 150 for a senate hopeful - from voters in their districts. Then they get money: $3,252 for a contested general-election house race; $12,910 for a senate race. These sums amount to 75% of the average cost of a race over the past two elections. Candidates can get as much as three times the initial amount if they're being outspent by opponents or attacked by outside groups. The cash, about $1 million this year, comes mostly from...
...mother Barbara for Bush; and for Gore, Barbra Streisand, Stephen King and Ed Asner. The Democrats alone planned to make 40 million phone calls in the last 10 days of the campaign. (No word on how many smashed phones electronics stores have been asked to replace.) "Phone messages get more attention than other ads," says Jamieson. "If people agree with what they hear, they play it again and again for their friends." And you just know that folks like that must have tons of friends...