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POLITICS MAY BE IN VOGUE IN PRIME time, but inside-the-Beltway sitcoms like Hearts Afire and The Powers That Be look cheesy next to a really smart political film like HBO's RUNNING MATES. Ed Harris plays a slick U.S. Senator who needs a wife to boost his bid for the presidency. Diane Keaton is a children's book author who falls for him but becomes a liability when a past indiscretion surfaces. The two stars click as a romantic team; there are nice offbeat touches (Keaton's mentally unbalanced brother, played by Ed Begley Jr.); and the backstage...
...outsiders have fared well. In Washington State, 41-year-old Patty Murray, whose previous political experience amounts to one term in the state senate, cast herself as "just a mom in tennis shoes" and beat former seven-term Congressman Don Bonker for the opportunity to run against another Beltway insider, five-term Republican Congressman Rod Chandler, for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Brock Adams. Murray becomes the 11th woman this year to make it onto a major party ticket for the Senate -- another record...
...Reaganomics, the President promised to "stimulate entrepreneurial capitalism, not punish it." He argued for lower taxes, less federal spending, less regulation. To make America an "export superpower," Bush proposed an expansive network of free-trade arrangements going well beyond the North | American Free Trade Agreement now pending. For the Beltway bureaucracy bashers, he offered to cut the salaries of higher-paid government officials and to pare the White House operating budget by one-third -- if Congress does the same...
...Washington correspondents Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame -- the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of the presidential beat -- who have been covering the Bush Administration together since Inauguration Day 1989. At first glance, they are, well, different from each other: the voluble, wisecracking Duffy is the inside-the-Beltway political junkie, while Goodgame, a Mississippi native and Rhodes scholar, is the laid-back outsider, always searching for the Big Picture...
Some G.O.P. officials are in agreement, citing new polls showing that even among Republicans, a solid majority prefer Gore over Quayle. "This is not a Washington Beltway phenomenon," warns a senior Bush aide. "We're hearing from Republicans all over the country who are afraid that the campaign is going to be too close this time, and that Quayle might cost us the few points that decide the election...