Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...position that Stephanopoulos and others, using surveys by D.N.C. pollster Stan Greenberg, had been pressing for from the start. Penn and Schoen tested two sentences: "The Republicans want to cut Medicare so they can pay for a $245 billion tax cut for the wealthy" (the classic class-warfare argument) and simply "The Republicans want to cut Medicare." The latter tested much better...
Overall, the Republican don't-give-Clinton-a-blank-check argument proved so effective that on Election Night some White House media advisers expressed annoyance that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had never developed and promoted an explicit counterargument. The committee had discussed doing so but concluded its money would be better spent funneled into specific targeted races. That decision appears to have been a mistake, prompted largely by a belief that the G.O.P. strategy would be ineffective...
...political strategist who found religion rather than a committed religious conservative who found politics. He knows there is grumbling about him for tacitly backing Dole, a loser who hardly even touched on abortion and family issues in the campaign. Reed's defense--"It's hard to make the argument that this race would have been significantly closer if the nominee had been someone else" (Buchanan? Alan Keyes?)--is plausible enough. Even so, next time the pressure will be on Reed to find somebody agreeable to Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council and Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum, hard...
...danger with being an older brother is, of course, that when your younger sister hits campus, she will expect you to know the ins and outs of this institution. Because you have been here longer, so the spurious argument goes, you will be able to give her the inside scoop on Harvard with the confidence of Suzanne Sommers pitching a Thigh Master...
...speaks with faith in his community, despite frequent reproaches that it has been unable to adapt to the modern era. Critics can wield frightening numbers to back the argument--only 52 percent of Native Americans finish high school and 4 percent graduate from four-year colleges, according to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Statistically speaking, Linson's presence is the exception to the rule...