Word: mating
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman, at a table on stage at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, left the traditional running-mate chores undone. They were surrogates for their candidates, and astonishingly effective ones. After all of Tuesday's itchy-fingered sloganeering, these two were almost translators, calmly and precisely explaining what their bosses had meant the other day. It was the traditional debate attitude that was missing - the grandstanding, the posturing, the darting search for that "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" moment. In other words, these politicians were a couple of class acts...
...Tuesday night's presidential debate George W. Bush succeeded in surpassing very low expectations. Tonight's vice presidential match-up provides his running mate, Dick Cheney, with a similarly underwhelming challenge: Showing America that he does, in fact, have a pulse...
Driskell and her running mate John A. Burton '01--who could not be reached for comment for this story--won last year's council elections in a landslide on the platform of building community...
...against Kemp, the mismatched running mate of Bob Dole, Gore faced a polished opponent, armed with charm, looks and football stories, and a Reaganesque ease that threatened to make Gore look unlikable. So Gore started with a gambit his daughter Karenna thought of: "I'd like to start by offering you a deal, Jack. If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." In one stroke, Gore got in a semi-funny self-deprecating wonk joke and got Kemp off his game. Gore spends the rest...
...been made of Joseph I. Lieberman's comments and emphasis on religion since Al Gore '69 picked him as his running mate last month. It has been a long time since a member of the Democratic ticket spoke so openly about the role of religion in public life, and many people are surprised. Groups that usually reserve criticism for conservative Republicans, such as the Anti-Defamation League, have asked Lieberman to stop speaking so overtly about his faith on the campaign trail...