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...gala at the same time he was getting the task force's blessing for incentives to build 38,000 miles of new pipeline. Nuclear-industry officials gave $150,000 while landing support for a waste-burial site--Bush later chose Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Former Representative Bill Paxon and another lawyer whose firm works for Exxon Mobil raised at least $100,000 apiece as the oil giant was persuading the panel to back a review of trade sanctions...
...gala at the same time he was getting the task force's blessing for incentives to build 38,000 miles of new pipeline. Nuclear-industry officials gave $150,000 while landing support for a waste-burial site-Bush later chose Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Former Representative Bill Paxon and another lawyer whose firm works for Exxon Mobil raised at least $100,000 apiece as the oil giant was persuading the panel to back a review of trade sanctions...
...They've been at the printing press for weeks." The Bush campaign has even purchased a coveted voter list that identifies Catholic voters--a "swing" category--in key districts across the country. "We're doing things we haven't done in a long time in a presidential race," says Paxon...
...that Paxon means financial pressure. In addition to Bush's solid debate performance last week, another reason for the G.O.P.'s October swagger is an overflowing war chest. The parties are permitted to spend as much money as they can raise in the general election, and the Republicans have been raising money by the bucket. In the third quarter of 2000 alone, the Republican National Committee relieved eager contributors of $100 million. With a month left, the R.N.C. had nearly $45 million on hand to spend, compared with $26 million for the Democrats...
...Oregon, Washington, Iowa and Wisconsin, each of which Democrats have won in the past three presidential elections. And in Tennessee, Gore's home state, and Bill Clinton's Arkansas, polls show the Texas Governor with a slight edge. "Bush is playing all over Gore's map," boasts Bill Paxon, a Bush lieutenant. "That puts a lot of pressure on the Vice President...