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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (170811)	8/13/2001 3:25:40 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Look at the facts.........they rarely race above the MasonDixon line: NASCAR Grand National Series schedule HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) -- The 1999-2000 NASCAR Grand National Series schedule announced Friday, with date, track and location: Feb. 13 -- Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla. Feb. 20 -- North Carolina Speedway, Rockingham, N.C. March 6 -- Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas. March 13 -- Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Ga. March 20 -- Darlington Raceway, Darlington, S.C. March 27 -- Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas. April 3 -- Nashville Speedway, Nashville, Tenn. April 10 -- Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn. April 24 -- Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, Ala. May 1 -- California Speedway, Fontana, Calif. May 8 -- New Hampshire International Speedway, Loudon, N.H. May 14 -- Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, Va. May 23 -- Nazareth Speedway, Nazareth, Pa. May 29 -- Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, N.C. June 5 -- Dover Downs International Speedway, Dover, Del. June 12 -- South Boston Speedway, South Boston, Va. June 27 -- Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, N.Y. July 4 -- Milwaukee Mile, Milwaukee. July 17 -- Myrtle Beach Speedway, Myrtle Beach, S.C. July 24 -- Pikes Peak International Raceway, Colorado Springs, Colo. July 31 -- Gateway International Raceway, Madison, Ill. Aug. 6 -- Indianapolis Raceway Park, Cleremont, Ind. Aug. 21 -- Michigan Speedway, Brooklyn, Mich. Aug. 27 -- Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn. Sept. 4 -- Darlington Raceway, Darlington, S.C. Sept. 10 -- Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, Va. Sept. 25 -- Dover Downs International Speedway, Dover, Del. Oct. 9 -- Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, N.C. Oct. 23 -- North Carolina Speedway, Rockingham, N.C. Oct. 31 -- Memphis Motorsports Park, Memphis, Tenn. Nov. 6 -- Phoenix International Raceway, Phoenix. Nov. 13 -- Miami-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex, Homestead, Fla.

To: ColtonGang who wrote (170811)	8/13/2001 3:30:58 AM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769670

LATIMES:Two aspects of the vacation are head-turning: the length and the location. The Washington Post calculated that when Bush's four weeks in Texas were finished, he will have spent 42% of his presidency on vacation, or en route to it. Even allowing for the occasional hours spent mulling a big decision (like last week's stem cell announcement), that's still a lot of time away from the grind. Which could either demonstrate how committed Bush is to proving that Washington should take itself less seriously, or how averse he is to long hours. Then there's the location. Clinton was famous (or infamous) for allowing advisor Dick Morris to poll voters on where he should vacation. In Crawford, Bush has picked a vacation spot that no pollster, let alone any travel agent, would select. The president, in fact, may be the first person in history to vacation for a month in greater Waco--in August, no less. All of this might seem silly. Except a significant part of Bush's support does seem based on cultural, rather than policy, affinities. It's impossible to quantify the exact proportion. Yet many of the people who like Bush seem drawn at least as much to the traditionalist moral and cultural values he represents--and their implicit contrast to Clinton--as any particular policy he offers. One measure of that dynamic came in last year's election results. Voters divided much more along lines of culture than economics. Al Gore and Bush spent months debating whose economic plan offered more to the middle class and whether Bush's tax cut was tilted toward the rich; they said almost nothing about cultural issues such as abortion or guns. Yet church attendance predicted the vote far better than income: The more often you attended church, the more likely you were to support Bush. Small-town and rural America went big for Bush; the cosmopolitan big cities backed Gore just as enthusiastically. The now famous red-and-blue election map showed Bush winning vast stretches of territory across the heartland; the president seemed to carry every county in America with a cow in it. He probably lost every town big and arty enough to support a foreign movie house. Rarely in U.S. politics has the old British maxim seemed so apt: Where you stand depends on where you sit. Nearly a year later, remarkably little has changed. When asked to choose between Bush and Gore in a CNN/Gallup/USA Today poll last week, Americans again divided exactly in half--48% for Bush, 48% for Gore. The cultural chasm remained huge. Bush carried rural voters by a dozen percentage points and lost urban voters by 14. Bush led by 15 percentage points in the South and trailed by 20 in the East. Married voters liked Bush, single voters, Gore. Women who stayed at home with children preferred Bush, women who worked outside the home, Gore. Americans who attend church at least weekly gave Bush a big edge; those who worship less often (or not at all) backed Gore. The bottom line: It's still two nations.