He placed less emphasis on comedy and spent more time on substantive policy issues.
He added that as the general election gets underway he hoped there would be more focus on "substantive and critical differences in the views of the candidates, and less focus on frivolous and prurient matters that serve as little more than distraction and misdirection".
More significantly, on substantive moral grounds, as Hook recognized, it was not tenable for an intellectual movement that charged Stalinism with framing its enemies in purges, trials and rehabilitation camps to be complicit with a movement which would falsely accuse persons of being communist agents or members of the Communist Party.
Hart said One is less focused on the financial commitment and more on the substantive commitments – what's the government doing on tackling HIV and malaria, or supporting agriculture or getting every child into school, for example.
In seeking to break from his past as a basher in debates, Mr. Gore said that when he contrasted himself with Mr. Bush, he would focus more on their substantive differences, particularly the Texas governor's tax-cut plan.
He predicted that Mr. Reagan would probably pick up a few more Democratic conservatives on substantive votes.
When "This Week" host Martha Raddatz pressed him to weigh in on the appropriateness of the tweet, Bossert accused the media of harping on it instead of focusing on more substantive issues.
Mr. Schröder is trying to take the initiative on more substantive issues, too, in a campaign that so far centers on unemployment and economic competence -- areas where Mr. Stoiber, however stiff, is thought to have the advantage.
But Mr. Torres said it was unfair to dwell on Mr. Gore's comments, asserting that it was far more important to focus on substantive issues.
Here is a round-up of each candidate's view on the sweets issue plus, on a more substantive note, on their key issue.
