ENICE, Calif. - Asked to defend the administration's spotty record of working with Congress, Vice President Al Gore suggested yesterday that his resume makes him better prepared for the White House than Bill Clinton was in 1992. In a question-and-answer session with employees, film editor Bill Brier told the vice president he was disappointed with the Clinton-Gore administration's record with a resistant Congress. Gore, noting his 16 years in the House and Senate, suggested he would bring more experience than Clinton did in 1993 when he went straight from the Arkansas governor's mansion to the White House. ''A governor who comes to the White House without previous experience in the Congress brings certain strengths. Someone who has served in the House and the Senate brings certain other strengths,'' Gore told Brier and about 25 others. (AP)
Campaign heads for small screen
WASHINGTON - The presidential campaign is shifting from town halls to television sets as candidates trade the retail campaigning of Iowa and New Hampshire for a multistate advertising blitz. Over the next month, candidates must woo voters in nearly two dozen states - including expansive and delegate-rich California and New York - forcing them to rely more on pricey 30-second spots than handshakes. Texas Governor George W. Bush, flush with record-breaking cash reserves, is already on the TV airways of seven states with GOP primaries this month. Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley, meanwhile, are conserving resources before unleashing a torrent of ads closer to their next primaries, on March 7, when 15 states vote at once. (AP)
THEY SAID IT
''They fear me. They'll fear me more in the weeks ahead.''
STEVE FORBES
On the Republican establishment
IN THE NEWS
Web sites don't tell the whole story
WASHINGTON - John McCain was the big winner in New Hampshire, but you never would have known it by checking his Web site. Looking at George W. Bush's site, you'd never have guessed there even was a New Hampshire primary. A study of the candidates' Web sites released yesterday found that most campaigns used them to spin the results of the nation's leadoff primary. McCain's campaign didn't update his Web site until the morning after his landslide win over Bush in Tuesday's New Hampshire GOP primary. By 10 p.m. Tuesday on Bush's site, every mention of New Hampshire had been replaced with information about the next battleground - South Carolina. (AP)
TODAY'S CALENDAR
Candidates scatter to varied sites
Bradley holds a rally at the University of Maryland.
Bush campaigns in Michigan before returning to Texas.
McCain campaigns in South Carolina before flying to Los Angeles.
Forbes campaigns in Delaware.
Keyes will be in South Carolina.
