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Article: New York Democrats Prefer Bill Bradley to Run With Gore.(TheFrontPage)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2000
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Byline: Terry Golway
Back in the days when Bill Bradley's Presidential campaign was considered a formidable threat to Al Gore--that was about 17 years ago, wasn't it?--New York figured to be one of Mr. Bradley's keys to victory. It was here, after all, that Mr. Bradley spent the first decade of his working life, where the banker's son from Missouri became "Dollar Bill," the smartest player on one of New York's smartest teams, the Knicks of the 1970's.
And so delegate-rich New York became Mr. Bradley's virtual home state, with his left-of-centrist campaign made to order for those sturdy soldiers of class, gender, cultural, ethnic and racial conflict who ...