Word: question
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...JOIN THE CIRCUS, YOU'VE GOT TO GO UP ON THE TRAPEZE If you're crazy enough to run for President, you have to do all the ridiculous things people expect candidates to do, including answering the same dumb question for the 112th time. You can't be above it all or behave as if you think the Republic is lucky to have you. Voters and reporters want to see how much you want it. So kiss more babies, eat Polish sausages and don't bother issuing that 37-page report on your prescription-drug benefit plan...
...Reporters quickly began searching for other evidence that Bush might have given misleading answers about the arrest. When he was called for jury duty in 1996, Bush did not answer a question on a juror questionnaire about whether he had been involved in a previous criminal case. The Bush campaign says the form was filled out by an aide, who also did not answer several other questions. And there were suggestions in some press reports that when Bush got a new driver's license, with the number 00000005, after he became governor in 1995, his intent might have been...
...Maine's carefully crafted law still faces a practical question: Can clean candidates win, or will they be overwhelmed by those playing by the old rules. But "Eventually one of these people will run for Congress and win," says George Christie, an activist who worked to pass the law. "And there will be more and more from different states who have had experience with public financing." And then maybe, the reformers hope, as Maine goes, so will go the nation...
...billion-dollar question is whether the last-minute ads make any difference. Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University, says that in the past two elections, Bill Clinton did himself far more good with early ads. "The effectiveness of advertising," he says, "probably diminishes the closer you get to the election itself." As if you Michiganders didn't know that already...
...that incident, and Bush said no. Bush then seemed to want to amend his answer, Slater recalled, but spokeswoman Hughes prevented the interview from going further, leaving his answer as a denial. Hughes disputed Slater's account, saying that Bush insists he didn't answer no to the first question; by leaving Slater with the "impression" that there might have been another arrest in his life, she suggested, Bush was being straightforward. Slater didn't write about this exchange, but he described it to another writer, who included it in a profile of Hughes that appeared in the New Republic...