Word: problem
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...just do it," he says. "I talk to the kids, I'm interested in them. Drunk kids, they're my only problem...
From 8 p.m.--when the dinner crew clears out--until sunrise, groups of students gather to scrutinize problem sets and essay topics. Impromptu crowds form to chat about almost everything, from Ghungroo...
...problem is that the people who got most excited were the ones who felt McCain had attacked them and not just their nominal leaders. Most voters never saw the full text; they heard only the parts of the speech where McCain named names and threw fire bombs. Evangelicals have never been a monolithic group; many of them have their differences with the Robertson crowd and are far more tolerant than the Bob Jones wing. And yet many took McCain's salvo personally, as an attack on their convictions and their role in the Republican coalition. Bush's 9-point margin...
...worse. Bradley volunteers had been knocking on doors since the summer, while Gore floated through the state in 20-car motorcades, aloof and distant, connecting with no one. Whouley asked former New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman Joe Keefe, a key Gore supporter, to send a memo assessing the problem. Keefe let it rip: Bradley was "on fire" in New Hampshire, he wrote. Where Gore had the endorsements, Bradley had the people who mattered--the activists who had delivered the state to Gary Hart in 1984. Coelho was ready to blame the New Hampshire organization, but Whouley set him straight...
...they summoned Eskew and roused Gore's new chief of staff, Charles Burson, from bed. Gore wanted to move the campaign to Nashville, Tenn. Setting up his headquarters on K Street in Washington had been a huge mistake--a symbol of a clueless inside-the-Beltway campaign. But the problem was that no one knew how to get out of the two-year, $60,000-a-month lease. That didn't matter, Gore said; they had to move and shed staff on the way. He was ready with a biblical allusion, the admonition of God's messenger to Gideon...