Bill Schneider
Bill Schneider
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But the economy is good and unemployment is the lowest it's been in 30 years. Polls show a gradual increase since the 1970s in the number of people who say that trade helps rather than hurts the nation's economy.
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But the court allows the states to use the estimated numbers ...for drawing the lines within each state to the determine what district every member of Congress and each state legislator represents.
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Bush is sinking, Clark is surging. Clark picked exactly the right moment to make his announcement.
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Democrats would love to make Mississippi the third state, after South Carolina and Alabama last year, where they've taken the statehouse back from the GOP,
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This primary process ended earlier than ever before,
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It's all Iraq. In 50 years, 2004 will be known as the Iraq election.
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They're selling something. And the convention is the last chance they get to have the undivided attention of a national audience.
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Where is Gore with women? Just 50 percent, ... Given how badly he is doing with men, and it is very bad, he has got to boost his standing with women.
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The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.
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He's tough; he'll fight back. He's not Michael Dukakis. He won't just lie there and get beat up. ...
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George Bush moved into the lead at that convention and never lost it. How did he do it? He reminded voters that things were better under Ronald Reagan, so why would you ever want to change?
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If it turns out that George Bush doesn't get elected, once a party has run three times, like the Democrats after 1980, 1984 and 1988, they begin to see the light and say, 'We have to change,' ... Well if the Republicans lose this year ... they are going to be looking at John McCain and saying, 'Maybe he's got something to say, maybe we should listen to him a little bit harder,' and I think he's well-prepared for that outcome.
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The problem is, there wasn't enough of them,
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I think the driving force behind his success was him, his own life story.