MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.(The Talk of the Town)(comparing the campaign funds of George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 14-JUN-04

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One of the sillier interludes of the current campaign season--or seasons, since the damn thing is going to end up spreading across all four by the time it gets through with us--was the mini-flap over when John Kerry would "accept" the Democratic nomination for President. The flap began on Friday, May 21st, when the Associated Press moved a story saying that the Kerry campaign was considering having its candidate delay his "acceptance" until September 1st, the day before President Bush "accepts" his renomination as the Republican candidate, at his party's Convention, here in New York. The Democratic Convention would still come off as scheduled, in Boston, during the last week in July, and there would still be nominating speeches and floor demonstrations and funny hats, and Senator Kerry would still deliver the traditional climactic address. But, in some formal, technical, strictly legal sense, the nomination would just sort of sit there for the next five weeks, at which point, in some similarly formal, technical,...

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