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Article: Bush's Fakeout.(George W. Bush expected to match Albert Gore Jr. in debates)(Brief Article)(Column)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- September 25, 2000
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By Cultivating Low Expectations, GOP Candidate May Win the Debates
No one argues with this bit of conventional wisdom in the 2000 presidential election: Texas Governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush would get a major-league whoopin' in a debate with Vice President Al Gore. And it is that high expectation of Gore superiority that could spell trouble for the Democratic presidential nominee.
Without question, Bush looked pretty bad trying to weasel out of the debates put together by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates in favor of less strenuous encounters with CNN's Larry King and NBC's Tim Russert. Oh, all right, let me ...