Word: speech
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Carroll said the late Feb. speech McCain gave in Virginia criticizing Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell appears to have hurt him, even though it was designed to attract voters in California and New York...
...That speech appears to have [had] a boomerang effect, which is peculiar, but hey--it's a peculiar year," Carroll said, adding that California's primary system, approved in 1996, is "nutty...
...Race is one of the fundamental elements of my campaign. . . . It is who I am, it's what I live," he has said. In nearly every stump speech, Bradley says he has a deep commitment in furthering racial unity, which has been present since his days as a professional basketball player. As President, Bradley says he would sign an executive order ending racial profiling. He says he would work hard to maintain and expand affirmative action programs. And he says he would hold his staff accountable for their own commitment to racial justice...
...With both candidates having scaled back their negative campaigning in the days leading up to Tuesday, Gore has emerged as both honorable and electable, with his party firmly united behind him as he focuses his attentions on George W. Bush. In a victory speech Tuesday night in a Nashville hotel ballroom - the same place he celebrated his 1984 Senate victory - Gore repeated the mantra "Join us! Join us!," an indication that he'll aggressively seek the crossover vote. "The exit polls came in early in the day, but he remained cautious," says TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty, reporting from Gore headquarters...
...weekend, but still trails by a 30 percent margin in the Zogby daily tracking poll. That's a gap that even Bradley's pal Michael Jordan would be unable to jump, and, in that light, MSNBC reported Monday that aides said the ex-senator was already planning his concession speech. At this point, it seems all he can hope for is to deliver it with better news than anyone expected...