Word: though
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...blacks, Hispanics and working-class whites. Many of the Cuban and Italian graybeards who drink big, foamy cups of cafe con leche and talk politics every morning at the La Ideal Cafeteria and the West Tampa Sandwich Shop said they are going to stick with the Democratic ticket, even though Gore is like a bowl of black beans without the onions and spice. "I like Gore on Social Security and the environment," said Carlos Reyes, 55, who runs a medical-billing company. But Reyes says people will have to be dragged to the polls, disgusted with "politicians who would sell...
Gore says he is for "revolutionary change" but hasn't really proposed any; he is running with his fists balled, itching for a fight--you ain't seen nothin' yet!--even though his entire platform amounts to massaging the feet of the middle class every bit as faithfully as Bill Clinton has these past eight years. Bush's message meanwhile is so soothing--Can't we all just get along?--and yet his reforms of Medicare and Social Security and education offer more change than anything either party has proposed in years--and that's just the agenda he admits...
Bush likes to point out that he had a life before he went into politics, ran a baseball team, lived outside the bubble, made the acquaintance of "real people," though only people who have led a pretty unreal life ever refer to people as real people. His father's first race was in 1964, when George W. was already 18. Gore, on the other hand, was soaked in politics from birth. His mom and dad were born poor; her bridal bouquet was an armful of weeds he scooped up on the roadside. Gore's father saw government as a means...
...Cadillac in Cleveland, Ohio. Usually, his staff rents a mere midsize car for him when he travels, but when the folks at the rental counter heard it was Ralph Nader who'd be tooling around in their vehicle, they offered an upgrade. This is a rare indulgence, though, in this shoe-string campaign. Nader has no motorcade, no private jet. He travels with just one staff member, flies coach and looks more like a rumpled academic than a presidential candidate...
...never dived into electoral politics. Now the man whose 1965 auto-industry polemic, Unsafe at Any Speed, brought us mandatory seat belts is on a collision course with Al Gore. In the Bush-Gore race, Nader could throw the election to Bush by draining liberal votes from Gore. Even though Nader polls just 3% of likely voters nationally, according to the latest TIME/CNN poll, he runs much stronger in Oregon, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington and New Mexico. And Nader's supporters are enthusiastic: he has drawn crowds of 10,000 and more in Boston and Portland, Ore. He sold...