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The days and hours are ticking away on Campaign '02...For political junkies like us,
next Tuesday is like the Super Bowl, World Series, your birthday and a great Van Halen
concert (even post-David Lee Roth) all rolled into one...We're gearing up big time
around America's NewsChannel and we'll do a huge blowout preview tonight...It'll be
worth delaying your Friday night social plans for sure (or at least setting your
VCR)...Besides what real party gets ragin' before 10 pm anyway?
Btw, you'll be pleased to know that Chris is honcho-ing our election coverage from 7
pm et until the "last dog dies" as Clinton used to say...Dig the cool election 2002
website preview site the hotshot Bratty-Go dot-com team put together...
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/tvnews/decision2002/?0cb=-11699446
Back to tonight's lecture at hand...Norah O'Donnell will serve as Chris' anchor buddy.
(That's another one of those highly technical TV terms for a person who shares the
set with the host and provides color commentary)...Shuster's got a "big picture" look
at Bush's campaign sprint and several of the hot senate races out there...Then we'll
go to MSNBC/Hotline political analyst dude Craig Crawford who's in Minnesota. That
Senate race is already starting to get ugly...
We'll go round the country with "boots on the ground" reportage from the en fuego
states including Florida, South Dakota, Missouri, Maryland, New Hampshire etc...Bush &
Daschle aren't on the ballot but they might as well be...
In the e/f block we got Terry Jeffrey and Carl Jeffers (their pieces appear below)
who'll do some big picture stuff....Terry will explain why he thinks Tom Daschle is
the Newt Gingrich of this cycle...Plus, did you see that testy exchange Bill Clinton
had in Eugene, OR with a reporter over bin Laden??...It's a hot sot (sound on tape)!!!
We'll play it...I hope..
Our friends at the Hotline provided this little morsel: "The intense pleasure many
experience from listening to Mozart's great D Minor Piano Concerto has much in common
with the deep satisfaction of solving a complex mathematical problem" -- Fed chair
Alan Greenspan (Wall Street Journal)
As my fellow U.City, MO High grad Nelly once said "It's gettin' hot in here..."
>From the Briefing mailbag...
"Dude, You're so wrong about U2. While Joshua Tree was a phenomenal record, Achtung
Baby is clearly their masterpiece" -Dave in Jersey
"What are you smoking, U2 are the still bringing out the best rock music there is."
-Kevin
"You were killin' me with the reference to U2!! However your reference to Dokken at
the end of the briefing helped me understand why you might say that. Long live U2!"
-Debra
"Dominic, dear, you are just too cool! :) Keep up the good work....oh, and you are
absolutely right about The Joshua Tree..." -Michelle
-Thanks for reading The Briefing, people...U2 is a great band and put on a great show
in '87...I respect them immensely, I just ain't down with their newer stuff..."One's"
pretty good though...D
Keep it Real...Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing in Washington,
DC
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Buy Pat's new book here (I promised him last night we'd give it a shout out and then
Chris flubbed the intro!)
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President Bush stumped Friday for "both George W.'s" - a Republican congressman in
danger of being ousted by a Democrat, and for his own agenda, which hangs in the
balance if the GOP loses the House. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20021101/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
President Bush on Friday sought to tip the balance in one of this year's most fiercely
contested congressional campaigns between two incumbents struggling to win a newly
drawn district (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=politicsnews&StoryID=1668163
Bush woos tossup states for GOP's Hill candidates...President Bush yesterday began a
weekend of whirlwind campaigning for candidates in races crucial to determining
control of Congress next year. (UPI)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20021101-94716062.htm
You really knew it would come to this!!! John Allen Muhammad, accused in the sniper
killings, has made his political debut. His image is appearing in a gun control
commercial that an underdog Democrat hopes to ride to victory in New Jersey. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021101/ap_on_el_ge/sniper_politics_1
Jeffrey Latest: Conservatives must support John Sununu in the New Hampshire Senate
race, and not write-in Bob Smith
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/10-28-02/jeffrey.htm
Jeffers latest: Reasons not to attack Iraq
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=carl30&date=20021030&query=Jeffers
Bush, Democrats on election trail...With just five days before Election Day, President
Bush and candidates across the nation hit the campaign trail Thursday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/827795.asp
With control of Congress at stake, President Bush will step into Minnesota's decisive
Senate race this weekend following First Lady Laura Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3402027.html
With their abbreviated campaign near the halfway mark, the candidates for Minnesota's
U.S. Senate seat are touting the access to power they'd have in Washington. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=683&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20021101/ap_on_el_se/minnesota_senate
It's getting ugly early in Minnesota http://www.themondalerecord.com/
Orin: Just hours after Walter Mondale launched his Senate bid to replace the late Paul
Wellstone (D-Minn.) and vowed a positive campaign, his labor allies went negative with
a harsh radio attack ad against GOP rival Norm Coleman, Republicans charged. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/50029.htm
Ventura rules out appointing Democrat to Senate (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/4415928.htm
News of the weird...Must Read: WCCO-TV's Pat Kessler got a rude awakening from Norm
and Laurie Coleman after the political reporter used the word "visiting" in a profile
about the U.S. Senate candidate. http://www.startribune.com/stories/464/3401780.html
'Future' Confronts Past in Minnesota...The theme of Republican Senate nominee Norm
Coleman's final swing across Minnesota is "the future is now," a fitting slogan for
his newly hatched strategy to portray former vice president Walter F. Mondale, 74, as
an endearing elder statesman whose time has come and gone. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48868-2002Oct31.html?referer=email
WashPost: Close election hinges on voter turnout...Dead heat in a voting machine:
Rarely has an election hinged more on which party mobilizes its most likely
supporters. The outcome of trench warfare between Democrats and Republicans hinges on
turnout. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/828525.asp
Hallow: Bush's popular presidency seen likely to sweep in GOP...President Bush's
record-high job-approval rating and virtual nonstop campaigning are expected to help
Republicans beat the historic odds in Tuesday's congressional elections.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20021101-94421064.htm
Handful of races could play pivotal role in determining Senate control (Kansas City
Star) http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/4417091.htm
Gore Invokes 2000 Vote to Help Townsend...Celebrity Speakers Include Kennedys, King as
Democrats Push Black Turnout (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48780-2002Oct31.html?referer=email
Al Gore and Martin Luther King III joined gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend at a campus rally that became as much a celebration of the Kennedy and King
families' roles in advancing civil rights as a political stop. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=511&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20021101/ap_on_el_gu/maryland_governor
Five days before Election Day, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday left Carl McCall
far behind - and crossed party lines to join Gov. Pataki for a ribbon-cutting at an
upstate plant. (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/50010.htm
Bush to ask NH voters to send Sununu to Senate (Manchester Union Leader)
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=15408
Sen. Bob Smith wants "nothing to do with" a write-in effort on his behalf, his chief
of staff said yesterday. (Manchester Union Leader)
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=15420
Milbank: To Johnson-Thune, Add Bush-Daschle...S.D. Race Has National Implications
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48794-2002Oct31.html?referer=email
Five days before elections that will decide which party controls Congress, President
Bush came to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's hometown Thursday and urged people
to vote Republican as part of a frenetic campaign swing that has sent the president on
the road for most of the past two weeks. (Argus Leader)
http://www.argusleader.com/news/Fridayfeature.shtml
Bush, McBride clash over Haitians...Challenger denounces detention of migrants (The
Miami Herald) http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4417224.htm
Rudy Giuliani campaigned in Miami yesterday for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush - who said the
former mayor "has achieved Barbara Bush status" as an American icon. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/50014.htm
Campaign 2002's Ground Zero...The Democrats want to avenge 2000 with a victory in the
Florida governor's race. The White House is determined to stand in their way (Newsweek
mag) http://www.msnbc.com/news/828888.asp
GOP sends high-profile Republicans to Missouri to help elect Talent...Nearly one year
ago, some key Missouri Republicans met for several hours with White House political
strategists to discuss, among other things, how the president could help elect Jim
Talent to the U.S. Senate. (Kansas City Star)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/4415963.htm
MO Senate: Democrats get riled over Bush tickets...."This is a partisan event, and the
use of City Hall staff is an outrage," said state Democratic Party executive director
Mike Kelley. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdweb.nsf/TodayFriday/86256A0E0068FE5086256C64004C0EAE?OpenDocument&PubWrapper=A-section
Fun Clinton News: Former President Bill Clinton, the politician and celebrity, took on
the additional role as storyteller yesterday as thousands cheered, applauded and
turned out to see him during a whirlwind tour of four islands. (Honolulu Star
Bulletin) http://starbulletin.com/2002/10/31/news/index5.html
Clintons, Gore campaign furiously for Democrats...Furious campaigning by former
President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
has turned the midterm elections into a referendum on the old Clinton-Gore platform.
(The Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20021101-28311552.htm
Louisiana killing tied to sniper rifle...Ballistic evidence has linked the rifle that
authorities say was used in the sniper rampage in the Washington, D.C., area to an
unsolved shooting death in Baton Rouge, La., sources told NBC News on Thursday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/816566.asp
Gertz: North Korea is continuing to develop long-range missiles that threaten the
United States and a basic defense system against them is about two years from
deployment, the Pentagon's missile-defense chief said yesterday.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021101-11616336.htm
Sharon Turns to Right In Bid to Retain Power...Israel's Nationalist, Orthodox Parties
Courted (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49123-2002Oct31.html?referer=email
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met his rival in the right-wing Likud party,
Benjamin Netanyahu, on Friday and planned to offer him the post of foreign minister,
Israeli diplomatic sources said. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=716&e=9&u=/nm/20021101/ts_nm/mideast_israel_sharon_dc
Kurtz: It's the Bottom of the Ninth...In a campaign's final days, the discourse is
choked with cliches, even more than in the sports pages. No one really knows who's
going to turn out -- not the politicians, the operatives, or the journalists -- so
they take refuge in the familiar language of electoral mechanics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50588-2002Nov1.html
Harper on Media: Tragedy flavors an otherwise ho-hum race...Former Vice President
Walter F. Mondale's decision to take Sen. Paul Wellstone's place on the ballot after
the Minnesota Democrat died in a plane crash last week has fixated the press.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20021101-76636360.htm
Sullivan's Weekly Dish http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20021101-16968850.htm
Opinion/Editorial
Krauthammer: We're going wobbly
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer.html
Will: 20,000 rollicking mourners
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will.html
Not sure what to make of Peggy today, you decide: 'No Class'...What Paul Wellstone
might have thought of the memorial rally.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
The Wall Street Journal: War on the Initiative...Politicians try to subvert democracy.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002555
That sinking feeling...The Consumer Confidence Index has plunged to its lowest level
in nine years. But should you believe those dismal figures? Daniel Gross explores in
Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/828913.asp
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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