Al Gore has lined up the constituencies, |
Al Gore has lined up the constituencies. The women, the unions, the minorities, all of the important constituencies. The question is: Will Bill Bradley have a message that is strong enough to carry him? |
At this point in the administration there's one thing that counts, and it's the war in Iraq. |
Fifteen years ago, the negative was huge. They talked about organized crime. They talked about how gambling would attract prostitution. It would bring in the wrong kinds of tourists. Now it is better than 2-to-1 on the positive side. |
He's losing his grip on governance. It's now a sense that we've seen the best that he's going to produce as president of the United States. |
I can think of nothing that would galvanize and anger a wide segment of the American public more than overturning Roe v. Wade . I can't think of another issue that would generate as much intensity not only from the active left and feminists, but also from a lot of people in the middle. |
I think Al Gore really needs to find his voice, and I think he needs to find his own style. I think, up to this stage, he hasn't found that. |
I think that the difficulty for Al Gore is that he started with the sense that the nomination was coming his way, that major opponents like (House Minority Leader) Dick Gephardt and (Nebraska Sen.) Bob Kerrey dropped out. I don't think he realized how formidable the challenge would be coming from Bill Bradley or just in general. |
In one case he took the nation in his hands and took the reins of government and gave us a sense of action. Katrina has been just the opposite. It has been a vacuum of leadership and a failure to take the nation and the people of the Gulf in his arms. |
It all feeds into the public's perception that whatever is going on, there is a strong whiff of illegality. |
It comes down to the familiar debate about whether reporters are ignoring the good news. |
Retention is directly tied to recognition. People join companies, but they quit their managers. |
That has changed dramatically. People have had the chance to explore what gaming means to their community. |
The beauty is that Bill Clinton can frame the race better than anyone else. But against that, it makes the moral issue that much more important, and Al Gore wants to make this about economic issues. |
The difference with tracking polls is they are like windshield wipers, ... They brush out the oldest set of numbers and brush in the newest. |