The likable lightweight beats Annoying Man. This is understandable. It's a lot less painful than admitting the real news of this campaign, which is that Mr. Bush has battled Al Gore to a draw or better on their best issues. In the raunchy atmosphere of politics, what H.L. Mencken called the Carnival of Bunkum, the mass stimulation and marketing of a simple urge to change parties after eight occasionally tumultuous years can easily trump common sense as it has so many times before. And they don't plan to vote.
Families is where our nation takes hope, where wings take dream.
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