Dream Date Al

[Doug Henwood]

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held Treasury debt could disappear by 2007, if the USG keeps piling 
up surpluses at this rate. What will Wall Street - the world? - do 
without a Treasury market?]

Wall Street Journal - May 26, 2000

DATING GAME: They aren't single, but would women want to date Gore or Bush?

Worried because Bush is doing better among female voters, the Gore 
campaign convenes a focus group and asks women who would make the 
better date. The answer, according to congressional Democrats briefed 
on the results: the vice president. Though not a dream date, he was 
deemed thoughtful, reflective and interested in what woman have to 
say.

The women thought Bush was the type who would drive up in a flashy 
convertible, honk the horn instead of coming to the door, lean 
against his car chewing gum and spend all night talking about 
himself, according to congressional accounts of a meeting with Gore 
pollster Harrison Hickman.

The congressional Democrats weren't impressed. "You've got to do 
better with women," Chicago's Rep. Schakowsky told the Gore team.