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...otherworldly force must have helped McCain get this far against party favorite George W. Bush--and now McCain needs all the mojo he can muster. If he loses in New Hampshire this week, his candidacy is almost certainly dead. And even if he squeaks past Bush in the Granite State, McCain will have no time to savor his victory, because he's got to keep climbing the impossibly steep cliff that stands between him and the nomination. His next jagged ledge on the way up: the Feb. 19 primary in South Carolina, where he trails Bush by a 20-point...
While the McCain team was living in fear of an over-the-weekend volley of Bush attack ads--the kind that past G.O.P. front runners have often used to seal victory--Bush's aides swore they had no intention of trying any rash moves that might carry the state but poison Bush's image over the long haul. After Steve Forbes' 30% showing in Iowa, some raised the possibility of Bush's being pinched between Forbes on the right and McCain in the middle. Forbes' bankroll is always a factor, but Bush isn't worried about it--few people think...
Flip-flopping of any kind is not tolerated in South Carolina, so the Bush people are using McCain's abortion contortion to help shape a message: McCain is the Clinton of the G.O.P. primary. Bush's top strategist in the state, Warren Tompkins, says McCain is "taking positions to the left in order to find a constituency, play a numbers game." He calls McCain's tax policy "more Clintonesque than Reaganesque." And of McCain's plan to use most of the surplus to reduce the national debt and shore up Social Security, he adds, "I don't believe our party...
...McCain is weakest. Yet in the new TIME/CNN poll, veterans who plan to vote in the G.O.P. primary say they favor Bush over McCain, 58% to 30%. In some other polls McCain seems to be faring better among veterans, but he can't count on them to deliver the state. So he's working other avenues...
They made their way to a rally in a high school gym; but when aides pointed out that it was hard to schedule more events in a state gripped by a blizzard, Gore said, "No way! What else can we do? Who else can we see?" So off they went to a Dunkin' Donuts, ice-flecked cameras in tow, to buy up some doughnuts to deliver to the snowplow guys at a city garage...