Yo, eye got these Al's over here
January 23-29; Diving Into the Political Mosh Pit
By Jill Abramson
Jan. 30, 2000
It was a week of mosh pit politics.
Alan Keyes, eloquent scold against the evils of popular culture, ignited a culture war of sorts when he literally threw himself into a mosh pit to the music of Rage Against the Machine, a stunt orchestrated by the maverick filmmaker Michael Moore. Gary Bauer, Mr. Keyes's rival on the conservative right, upbraided him during the Republican debate in New Hampshire for demeaning the solemn quest for high office. (Mr. Bauer, meanwhile, did nothing for his own hipness quotient by mangling the name of the popular band.)
The larger mosh pit was the campaign itself: a week of jousting as the race got wilder in snowbound New Hampshire. There, a simple fact confronted those who would be president: Bill Clinton is the only aspirant since 1952 to be elected without winning the nation's first true primary.
Racing from the Iowa caucuses, where social conservatism plays well, to libertarian, tax-averse New Hampshire, the candidates shifted tactics sharply.
Bill Bradley, adopting a risky new strategy that could tarnish his above-the-fray luster, went on the attack after Vice President Al Gore drubbed him in Iowa; each is now accusing the other of resorting to that campaign no-no, negativity. Mr. Bradley accused the vice president of lying and unleashed two surrogate pit bulls, Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Niki Tsongas, the widow of Sen. Paul Tsongas, to attack Mr. Gore for distorting Mr. Bradley's record.
George W. Bush, the Iowa victor, found himself squeezed harder from both the right (Steve Forbes and Mr. Keyes both gained momentum in Iowa) and the left (John McCain, who skipped Iowa to save money for New Hampshire, is seeking to attract large numbers of independent voters in New Hampshire with his reform-minded centrist platform).
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/30/weekinreview/january-23-29-diving-into-the-political-mosh-pit.html
20 year ∆elta, kek.