Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Gore couldn't afford to wait. He was midway through the week that was supposed to start turning his campaign around--a week featuring a new "prosperity-and-progress" message, a new New Gore (this one less of an attack dog than the old New Gore) and a new goody bag of policies designed to seize the upper hand from George W. Bush. It had been an encouraging week so far--the press coverage respectable, the stump speech more effective and the rally at the airport near Scranton, Pa., so big and noisy it reminded Gore of the glory days...
Gore hopes the themes of prosperity and progress will be enough to keep him within striking distance of Bush, at least through the summer. In the fall the strategy will shift to hand-to-hand combat in half a dozen or so key states, Gore strategists say, and that is where they think their candidate will have the advantage. The terrain of issues varies--guns in New Jersey, the economy in Michigan, the environment in California--and the plan is to hammer each one hard enough to put Gore over the top. "It's not the wave but the strange...
That fight is months away. "There will be plenty of chances to return to it before people go to the polls," Gore said last week, relaxing in a wicker armchair on the sunny wraparound porch of his official residence. "People like this prosperity and progress," he said, savoring the moment--and hoping the rest of us will...
...governor is that he's become far more thoughtful, even pensive, in recent days. "The death penalty is a subject that needs to be debated in America, and cases come along that spark the debate," Bush told reporters Wednesday. To death penalty opponents, that may not sound like much progress, but at the very least, it's a far cry from the sometimes glib and dismissive Bush who has officiated so resolutely over 131 executions during his five-year term. The real test for Bush will come in a week, a month or even a year: When he's next...
...various... permanent status issues [to reach a final peace treaty]. The fact that they have been talking at all about them is very important, because in some ways they've demystified a lot of issues that nobody ever really wanted to talk about. So I think there's progress in that regard. They are really dealing with the hardest issues. The President asked me to go [to the Middle East] to determine whether there's a sufficient basis for going forward with the summit [with Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat] or whether we have...