Word: gore
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...George W. Bush has a puffed-up cock-of-the-walk strut. For people who think he's a little too full of himself, his walk is further evidence. Al Gore leans slightly forward and barrels along without looking sideways, which gives people the idea that he's not much of a lateral thinker. Bill Clinton has a galumphing, knock-kneed stride that explains why, as a 6' 2" 200 lb. high-school student in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was in the band rather than on the football team. The camera shot of him walking by himself - steely-jawed...
...Arizona, Georgia, Texas and Florida will each gain two congressional seats and thus two electoral-college votes; Colorado, Nevada and North Carolina and California (which went for Gore, if barely) will each gain...
...course, Gore 2004 isn't exactly slipping away. The populations on the fastest rise are urban and minority, in booming population centers like Atlanta, Miami and Las Vegas, and the nation's cities are classic Democratic stomping grounds. To assume Florida stays red after the 2000 election fiasco is an exercise in denial. And when the census gets its close-view, block-by-block count finished in March, those urban and minority head-counts will give Bush a chance to address the problems with his election in Florida - or irk those groups all over again...
...pedigree. He dealt with low military morale in the wake of Vietnam, has held posts up and down the military and economic policy chains, and sees eye to eye with Bush on a missile defense. He even signed a letter in November criticizing Vice President Al Gore for agreeing in 1995 to Russia's sale of military equipment to Iran...
...then came the surplus, a $4.6 trillion paper windfall on which Al Gore and George W. Bush sketched out their competing ideologies and Clinton presented as his legacy. But voters, rightly, were a little skeptical...