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Bush, Clinton stump for candidates
By John Mercurio
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Everyone who's anyone is on the campaign trail Thursday. President Bush travels to three states. Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne take in three others. Former President Bill Clinton travels from Hawaii to Oregon, while Al Gore stumps for Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's struggling gubernatorial campaign in Maryland. But perhaps most notably, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, is making an eleventh-hour appearance with a Republican governor she's working hard to unseat. Clinton will appear with Gov. George Pataki to announce a new firm moving to an industrial park in upstate New York. The joint appearance, just five days before Election Day, is raising eyebrows about how committed she remains to Democrat Carl McCall's ailing challenge to Pataki. Here's a look at the day's political activity.
October 31 •Former Vice President and ex-Sen. Walter Mondale begins the first day of his first political campaign in 22 years and his first Senate race since 1972. A new Minneapolis Star-Tribune poll shows Mondale leading Republican Norm Coleman by eight points, about the same margin the late Sen. Paul Wellstone held over Coleman before his October 25 death. Also today, the Minnesota Supreme Court set a hearing to hear the state Democratic Party's demand that new absentee ballots be mailed at the request of those who have already sent in their votes for Wellstone.
•Former Vice President Al Gore will campaign today in Maryland for Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a Democrat, who's trailing GOP Rep. Bob Ehrlich in the open-seat governor's race. Gore carried Maryland by 17 points in 2000. •President Bush gets back on the campaign trail today, visiting a handful of candidates in South Dakota, Indiana and West Virginia. Bush plans to visit South Bend, Indiana, to stump for GOP House nominee Chris Chocola, who's locked in a tight race with ex-Rep. Jill Long Thompson, a Democrat. Vice President Dick Cheney stumps Friday for 7th District challenger Brose McVey. Bush will also travel to Aberdeen, South Dakota and will stump in West Virginia for GOP Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, who's locked in a tight rematch with Democrat Jim Humphrey. •Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, whose appearance at Democrat Carl McCall's side at a parade in September cinched McCall's gubernatorial nomination, will appear with GOP Gov. George Pataki to announce a new firm moving to an industrial park in upstate New York. Such a joint appearance five days before Election Day is highly unusual for two top officials of opposing political parties. •California Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, along with Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, state Assemblyman Carl Washington, state Assembly woman Jenny Oropeza and former Congressman and Assembly candidate Mervyn Dymally will meet with supporters and discuss get-out-the-vote efforts at the Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign offices in Compton and Long Beach.
•Encouraged by new poll numbers that continue to show him running far ahead of Republican Mike Fisher in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, Democrat Ed Rendell spends yet another day on his home turf. This evening, Rendell will speak at the Zion Baptist Church citywide revival in downtown Philly. For his part, Fisher begins his day at Skooky's Diner in Scranton •Education Secretary Rodney Paige and Republican Brose McVey, who is running an uphill race to unseat Rep. Julia Carson, D-Indiana, will hold an "Education Leadership Forum" in Indianapolis today. Paige and McVey will focus on the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in Indiana's 7th Congressional District. •White House Chief of Staff Andy Card will campaign in Maine with GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe's former chief of staff, Kevin Raye, the GOP House nominee in Maine's 2nd Congressional District. The two chiefs will discuss the importance of economic development and job creation in the district. •Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, travels to Denver, Colorado for yet another book signing and a campaign event for Republican Marty Allbright, a former Senate aide who's running for state attorney general. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colorado, may attend the Allbright event. •Today, Dick Cheney goes to Texas, Iowa and Missouri. Cheney starts the day in Houston, delivering remarks at Texas Victory 2002, a statewide coordinated GOP event. John Cornyn, the Texas GOP Senate nominee, will be on hand. Cheney and his wife Lynne will then travel to Missouri, where they will join GOP Senate nominee Jim Talent and Republican candidates at a rally at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Cheney will also rally Iowa GOPers at a state party event in Sioux City. He's traveling there on behalf of GOP Rep. Greg Ganske's Senate campaign. •Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, will travel to Missouri to help Sen. Jean Carnahan's struggling re-election campaign. Carnahan has fallen behind Republican Jim Talent in recent polls.
•Republican Senate nominee Elizabeth Dole begins her "Eliza-Bus" tour of North Carolina, stopping at rallies in Charlotte, Shelby, Rutherfordton and a downtown Halloween rally in Hendersonville. Political prognosticator Charlie Cook this week moved this race into the "toss up" column. Democrat Erskine Bowles will be campaigning with Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, in Charlotte. Later, Bowles will appear with former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman in Winston-Salem, where they'll attack Dole's record as labor secretary under the first President Bush. Dole was labor secretary when the senior Bush vetoed the Family and Medical Leave Act, a point Bowles is expected to highlight, and she opposed increasing the minimum wage increase at the time. •Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a Democrat, speaks to the Rotary Club in Lebanon, New Hampshire and attends an event with state Senate candidate Iris Estabrook in Dover. Dean also attends an event with state Senate candidate Beth Arsenault in Laconia. •Embattled Rep. Connie Morella, R-Maryland, and her Democratic challenger, state Sen. Christopher Van Hollen, will meet for a radio debate at the WTOP-AM studios in Washington. •Bill Clinton hosts a get-out-the-vote rally at the University of Oregon this evening. Clinton will be joined by singer and Oregon native Art Alexakis of Everclear, Saxophonist Paul Biondi and Sen. Ron Wyden. Democrats hold a get-out-the-vote event for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ted Kulongoski and for Senate candidate Bill Bradbury, who is in an uphill battle against GOP Sen. Gordon Smith. •House Speaker Denny Hastert, R-Illinois, will headline a breakfast fund-raiser in Phoenix, Arizona for businessman Rick Renzi, a Republican locked in a tight race with Democrat George Cardova for Arizona's rural 1st Congressional District.
•House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, is in New York City raising money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He's off to San Francisco Friday night and is there through Saturday. Gephardt then goes to St. Louis on Saturday. On Sunday, he's probably headed to Colorado to headline a rally for Democratic House nominee Mike Feeley. Feeley is running in a close race against Republican Bob Beauprez.
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