Word: support
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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WASHINGTON More conservative than in previous years, Washington is now a dead heat. Eco-friendly voters are wringing their hands over whether to support Gore or Nader...
PENNSYLVANIA Bush leads here, holding strong support from men. Gore has Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a slight edge with women. Nader slipped a point last month, down...
...grows. But it is especially hard for Gore this year. Gore's base is spoiled and soft after eight years in power--in one poll he drew only 78% of core Democrats. Bush's is so hungry to win it put its differences aside long ago: Bush has the support of 95% of the G.O.P. base, and so has been able to run a general-election campaign for a year, with a small detour through South Carolina. Even the right wing wants victory enough to do anything and say nothing. You didn't see Charlton Heston onstage in Philadelphia...
MICHIGAN Gore has struggled to cement labor's support here. The United Auto Workers met with Nader before finally endorsing Gore. That helped knock Nader down from...
...conscious decision to have a child on their own because they haven't found Mr. Adequate, let alone Mr. Right. "Now almost everyone seems to know someone firsthand or secondhand who has done it," says Jane Mattes, founder of Single Mothers by Choice, a 4,000-member international support group. "That's a huge cultural difference...