Word: pull
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...whole country, would choose to run for office rather than seek psychotherapy or at least a calm visiting professorship somewhere? If she doesn't ask the people in the hall to believe her but asks them to believe she can accomplish what they believe in, she may yet pull it out. She's such a survivor, CBS should have cast her on the show...
...seized the initiative and a lead in the polls - will he get the benefit of the doubt? Even what passes for the high ground in a McCain- and Bradley-less fight? Well, Gore will need some serious political tiptoes to pull it off, but luckily his most strident critics are already voting Republican. And luckily, for disgusted undecideds suspicious of whether a former coffee-giver-in-chief can change the system, the alternative this year is George W. Bush, who doesn't seem to think there's much wrong with the system in the first place...
...come up with better explanatory sound bites than "not abandoning the battlefield," and "everybody does it." He might want to start convincing us that if elected and placed in the fund-raising catbird seat, he'll actually use his power to reduce his reelection chances. That he won't pull a Torricelli on us, and back McCain-Feingold right up until it actually has a chance to pass...
...Hannibal, 7 p.m.: We pull into town. The rally's rocking. There are little Tom Sawyers everywhere. Everybody runs off the boat. I've only got about an hour left before everybody in the campaign packs up and flies to an event tomorrow in Milwaukee. I don't have the e-mail. I'm totally screwed...
...much as they could have if they'd seen this coming and milked advertisers from the start. But ads for the last hour are going for $600,000, and the whole three-hour extravaganza, with a trumped-up reunion after the finale, could pull in $17 million alone...