Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...recent weeks, pro-Republican interest groups based in Washington, such as Americans for Tax Reform and the National Right to Life Committee, have aired television and radio ads in New Hampshire criticizing McCain for his stands on campaign-finance reform and other issues. McCain has accused Bush of having surrogates do his dirty work--a charge the Bush campaign has shrugged off as ridiculous. And in New York, where Bush has the support of Governor George Pataki and most of the state G.O.P., McCain is suing over the procedural hurdles he faces trying to get on the ballot...
...crisscrossed Iowa by plane and bus. And I must say--for the sake of getting it out of the way--that yes, he looks as if he just accidentally walked into a brick wall and was knocked goofy. The glasses and smile are akimbo, and the eyes are not right. But he is so obviously pained by this, and stuck with it, that I found a sympathetic quality...
Depends on the year. In the last go-around and for most of his life, Forbes kept his religion privatized. If anything, he offended social conservatives by calling Pat Robertson a toothy flake and saying that if a woman were raped, she had a right to an abortion. But when President Clinton put the hallelujah back in Republican politics, the Lord Jesus suddenly gave Steve Forbes the courage to testify for faith-based leadership. You'd think such a swift conversion might backfire, but there's little evidence of it in Iowa. Steve Scheffler, leader of the state's Christian...
Were these polls right or wrong? That's largely irrelevant. The real point is, they don't matter. At this stage of a campaign, voters' minds are subject to change without notice. Even in Iowa and New Hampshire, where candidates take out residency papers, last-minute changes are commonplace. And national polls measure almost nothing worth thinking about. Most people haven't even begun to contemplate the campaign, and their choices are a thin gruel of name recognition and vague impression...
American interest in African AIDS has intensified since a series in the Boston Globe gave the issue new prominence last fall. So Gore's announcement appealed to domestic voters such as the gay-rights groups that attacked him last summer for allegedly supporting U.S. pharmaceutical companies trying to block the manufacture of generic AIDS drugs in South Africa. "He is showing presidential-quality leadership," said Eric Sawyer, a founder of ACT UP New York. "Compared to the other candidates, he is doing all the right things." But some Africans said they were unimpressed by the pledge of only $100 million...