DEMOCRATS VERSUS REPUBLICANS IN 2000 – GEORGE W. BUSH VERSUS AL GORE. A lot of (1) ___ in the world's press is going to the upcoming elections in the United States. A new President is being elected, along with elections to the House of Representatives and a third of the (2) ___ in the Senate. Roughly (3) ___, the Republicans are our mainstream “right” party and the Democrats are our mainstream “left”. By European (4) ___ both would be considered centrist parties. Traditionally, these parties have been supported by the (5) ___ traditionalists and the strongly religious. The Democrats are supported by organized labour, the poor and working (6) ___, immigrants, minorities and liberals. The Republican candidate, George W. Bush, Jr., has shown a (7) ___ deal of ability to win support from traditionally Democratic voters. He is a part of something called “Compassionate Conservatism”. This claims to be a (8) ___ to soften traditional Conservative values of self-reliance and personal responsibility with the realization that the State has a role to (9) ___ in helping people to help themselves. In addition, his reforms of the Texas education system (he was the Governor of Texas) were both (10) ___ and successful. This has given him a lot of credibility nationwide. Another thing Bush Jr. did in Texas was make the first serious (11) ___ by a Republican to get the important Hispanic vote. He speaks decent Spanish, can (12) ___ speeches in that language and is knowledgeable and active concerning issues in the Hispanic community. There (13) ___ to be a lot of sincere interest on his part, not only vote-getting. Lastly, Bush Jr. has tried to (14) ___ criticism of his ignorance of foreign policy by appointing Dick Chaney, his (15) ___ president father's Secretary of D...

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