Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...bearing fruit, the Gore campaign expanded its assault to the Panhandle and finally statewide. Now Bush has been forced to spend more than $8 million - better than twice as much as Gore - to try to hold on to a state where his own brother is Governor. Gore continues to press hard in Florida, but a top campaign official worries: "We're tied or up 3% there, but that's a lot of money. At some point, you wonder whether they can overwhelm you. And in a close race, just two points ..." The official's voice trails...
...times what it spent in 1996. The money is going toward everything from setting up phone banks to knocking on doors on Election Day to sending out targeted mail. "I do think this mail thing is a problem," frets a top Gore strategist. "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...
...While some are complaining of neglect, the airwaves in other areas are being deluged. At Tampa's WLFA, the advertising department asked station management to start its weekend newscast 30 seconds later so it could slip in one more spot after Meet the Press. (Management declined.) But with competing ads sometimes coming back to back, assistant news director Deb Halpern says, "I've actually had calls from viewers asking me to explain commercials. The viewers will say, 'Which one is true...
Associated Press reports were used in compiling this story...
...With a comparative dearth of heavy-breathing press coverage in between the candidates, Round Two of the presidential debates may well get lumped in with Tuesday's Round Three in the collective voter consciousness. Gore will hope he has encouraging news to relay from the White House, and will stay out of kindergarten-teacher mode when he's answering the questions of ordinary citizens in St. Louis. Bush, having cemented his position as at least a viable candidate, will have to keep up his momentum on foreign policy, and find some statesmanlike way to pin the current turmoil...