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...toward the end, the candidate who had run an almost flawless campaign since June began to coast on his lead, doing and saying nothing to stir things up. Smelling victory, aides began to jockey more vigorously for position, and some eyed jobs in a Clinton Administration. But when Begala crowed to reporters after the first debate that "it's over," an angry candidate chastised him. And in the third and final debate, Bush finally found a focus and intensity that had eluded him and that he has carried into the homestretch. Perot, as maverick as ever, was scoring with what...
Bush, speaking first, surprised Clinton by taking the high road, skirting the draft issue while making an eloquent case that combat experience helps forge a better President. In what Clinton aide Paul Begala calls a rush "cut- and-paste job," the Democratic nominee then deleted an elaborate defense of his draft record from his own speech to change its emphasis to (surprise!) the economy. The result: a drawn game...
Clinton's instincts these days err on the side of caution. The once accessible candidate now travels almost completely cordoned off from his press corps. Impromptu press conferences are discouraged because as Begala -- the traveling strategist and speechwriter -- puts it, "they just don't look very presidential...
...Perot and Clinton camps have accused Bush operatives of going beyond legitimate research to what Perot calls spreading "false allegations" to reporters, and what Paul Begala, a senior adviser to Clinton, calls "rummaging through all the garbage cans in Little Rock." Neither campaign, however, has documented a specific example of any Bush operative's violating the President's public order to "stay out of the sleaze business...