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...growing number of Spanish-speaking Americans has produced a powerful backlash among voters. Referendums declaring English the official language passed in Florida and Colorado; a similar initiative was leading in Arizona. Although it is not clear how the Florida and Colorado laws will affect daily life, the Arizona proposition instructs local governments and their employees to "act in English and in no other language...
...complaint. But the Republican attack did not stop there. Instead, Bush's handlers tapped into the rich lode of white fear and resentment of blacks that the G.O.P. staked out more than 20 years ago, when the party of Lincoln recast itself as the embodiment of the white backlash. It started with Barry Goldwater railing against Earl Warren's Supreme Court and civil rights legislation. Then, as the long hot summers blazed, Richard Nixon courted voters with a "law-and-order" harangue. Ronald Reagan kept it up with his allusions to "welfare queens" and the "strapping young buck" using food...
...adds that "the campaign during those times didn't seem to be organized enough to make those decisions," and that "when charges are so outrageous, you think they'll go away or backlash. That's the established wisdom and it holds true in most House and Senate races, for example...
OHIO. Howard Metzenbaum, a gadfly who brays through one of the loudest trumpets in national politics, is portrayed as "too liberal" by Cleveland mayor George Voinovich. But blooper-prone Voinovich's attempt to link Metzenbaum to kiddie porn unleashed a backlash. During the G.O.P. Convention, Voinovich described himself as the leading candidate for next year's gubernatorial race, seeming to concede the Senate contest. He might as well...
...succeed in pointing out this election year conversion? Bush's campaign has painted Dukakis as a bleeding heart liberal from early on. The Dukakis campaign, however, preferred to attack Bush's "competence" rather than his record. It may have wanted to avoid implicit criticisms of Reagan and risk the backlash of voters who refuse to believe the man could have done anything wrong...