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The Whistlestop train pulled into the last station shortly after Super
Tuesday. Thanks to our readers who visited thousands of times during the
winter primaries. You helped us all get jobs!
Feel free to browse through our archives of campaign stops and voter
profiles. It's still good stuff.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. - The stars do not lie.
Sure, they're not always dead-on. My psychic told me Texas Gov. George W. Bush would win six of 13 states Tuesday. Actually, he won nine. But those are details. Small details.
Pundits and talking heads sounded a lot like Lucky Leo Tuesday night when they talked about nails in the coffins of Arizona Sen. John McCain and Bill Bradley. They speculated on when they would drop out, even though they were numerically still in their races.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF.-- A devoted reader and one-time interviewee e-mailed me twice and called me once to insist that I ask the vice-president of the United States whether it was true he was pleasuring himself before he made speeches. This reader's theory, you see, was that Gore had Naomi Wolf on his staff as a consultant, and that Wolf had written that teenage girls should be taught how to masturbate. Clearly then, she had instructed Gore in this regard.
Sure, I thought to myself. I'll just ask the vice president of the United States if he takes the Sears catalog and disappears for awhile before he makes a speech. You know, to relax. Sure. And then two Secret Service toughs will pick me up by the ears and forcibly remove me. And that would be my last Gore event.
These are the interesting things that happen to you on the trail that don't necessarily make it into your stories. Like taking a Bradley staffer to a casino in Iowa. Or running into a woman in San Francisco that you knew in high school.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - Texas Gov. George W. Bush will beat Arizona Sen. John McCain in six of 13 primary states today, psychic Lucky Leo said during a palm reading before the polls closed on the East Coast. Vice president Al Gore also will win big, he predicted.
"McCain will be out of the race, guaranteed. He won't run no more," said Lucky, a Republican who voted earlier in the day for Bush.
Palm readers are as prevalent in LA as check cashing places are on the south side of Chicago, or Starbucks are in Washington, D.C. I only had to drive a couple of blocks from my friend's place before I came across a place called Mama Maria. Now that I've been in LA a few days, getting into the car to go a couple of blocks seems completely reasonable.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - Just as there was bowling and family farms in Iowa, Dunkin' Donuts and internet taxes in New Hampshire and sweet tea and the Confederate Flag in South Carolina, so too does California have its local quirks and local issues. Massive highway interchange girders and Propositions 21 and 22 come to mind.
California has a unique form of populist government that enables citizens to have initiatives placed on the ballot fairly easily. In order to have a change in the law placed on the ballot, advocates need only to acquire signatures amounting to five percent of the total votes cast in the previous gubernatorial election. On Tuesday, Californians will not only decide who should be the nominees of the two parties, they will also decide on 20 ballot initiatives that, if approved, will become law.
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PLEASANT HILL, CALIF. - Oh, the unpopular ones. The rabble-rousers. The naysayers. Always dissenting and complicating perfectly fine campaign events.
The primaries are the realm of the naysayers. No matter what happens on Super Tuesday, the protesters never lose. They win by grabbing attention, and hopefully support. There they were again Sunday at rallies for Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, butting in and speaking up.
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CHULA VISTA, CALIF. - Does size matter? Because if things don't go well for the Republican and Democratic party insurgents Tuesday, voters will have to decide who has a bigger one, Vice President Al Gore or Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
Both Gore and Bush travel with sizable security forces. If a presidential campaign between the two gets ugly -- and there is good reason to believe it will -- the election could rest on who has the baddest security detail. Would the Secret Service school the Texas Rangers and state troopers in a rumble? Or would the Texans show the D.C. insiders who really wears the cowboy boots in the family?
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WESTMINSTER, CALIF. - Everyone who could see Hao Nguyen's sign at Wednesday's rally in Little Saigon knew he loved Sen. John McCain. His sign said so.
Many South Vietnamese refugees at McCain's rally in Little Saigon in Westminster, Calif., felt the same way. They see McCain as a national hero who nearly died in a POW camp after fighting to keep them free.
Nguyen had more personal reasons. He and McCain fought on the same side in Vietnam, although for two different armies. McCain was shot down and spent 5-1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison; Nguyen was imprisoned for seven years after the war in a communist "re-education camp." McCain, of course, was released and returned to the United States. Nguyen crossed the ocean 18 years later.
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WESTWOOD, CALIF. -- When Ralph Nader walks up to the podium for his speech, there's no loud, thumping dance music or twangy country. No balloons or confetti. He doesn't claim to be Luke Skywalker like Sen. John McCain or promise to "fight for you" like Vice President Al Gore.
But the real differences between Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and the other candidates are borne out when Nader begins speaking, saying things other candidates wouldn't dare. The problems described by the Democratic and Republican candidates seem petty in light of the broad critique leveled by Nader during a talk at UCLA Wednesday evening.
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WESTWOOD, CALIF. - Bill Bradley told a large UCLA crowd that "in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness," we can eliminate child poverty, provide quality affordable health care for all Americans and "move our collective humanity a few feet forward and get to the point where in the words of Tony Morrison, 'Race exists but does not matter.'" I said 'Right on.' Then I went and played some air hockey in the student center.
College kids lap up everything Bradley says about America and the possibilities for its future. The only problem is, they have no reason to understand the problems of working families that Bradley is trying to address. They're in college.
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Rhythms - 03/01/00
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - There is an odd occupation in Old San Juan - "watching cars." Homeless people and junkies stake out a section of street and let everyone know who parks there that they're watching the cars. They hope for a bit of cash in return.
I think that's what the friendly guy was doing as he stood in the street in Old San Juan. That or acting as a watchman for a drug operation - I'm not sure.
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Focus Groups - 03/01/00
OLD SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - I’m certain that before long you will turn on C-SPAN and see 28-year old Rafael Munoz. He will be speaking on behalf of the disenfranchised and the dispossessed, probably as a Senator from the state of Puerto Rico.
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Kelly Sweetman and friends, Laurie Myers, Andy Grace,
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Todd Frankel, Rebecca Catalanello, Brendan Schwartz, Tom Matzzie, The Rocchios,
Chris Stoehr and family, Mike and Barb Dallavis, Bridget Bradburn, Aditya Rao,
Chet Brett, John Donovan.
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