Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great communicator," says pollster Frank Luntz, a Republican who worked for Ross Perot in 1992. "He knows what it takes to say the right thing and do the right thing to get us a majority. He is Ronald Reagan, only smarter." Preparing for his performance on the Capitol steps last week, Gingrich has had Luntz conduct focus groups every 10 days since January. And two weeks before he paraded his "Republican Contract with America," he held what a participant called a "serious, intense" dinner at the Republican Capitol Hill Club with G.O.P. intellectuals skeptical of the gimmick. They included Bill...
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...voice-over intones, "Look who Martin Lancaster is running around with in Washington!" Other TV ads for Republicans across the country are using special effects to morph their Democratic opponents' faces into the visage of President Clinton -- who must wonder why, if he has all these clones on Capitol Hill, he can't pass his legislation...
This excitement was palpable last Tuesday afternoon on the sun-drenched steps of the Capitol's west front, where House minority whip Newt Gingrich assembled more than 300 Republican candidates for Congress and predicted they would soon be running the place. Posing for scores of TV cameras from stations around the country, each candidate signed a Gingrich-inspired and pollster- tested "Contract with America," intended to mark Republicans as "outsiders" itching to clean up Washington. (On the advice of pollster Frank Luntz, the word "Republican" appeared nowhere in the background of the TV shot. "The party name should...
...Gingrich and his followers disagreed, but at the same time admitted that theirs was less a governing agenda than a battle plan. They showed the Democrats what they will be up against -- in numbers and intensity -- in the fall campaign and afterward. Few of the hopefuls sweating on the Capitol steps last Tuesday resembled Bob Michel, the decent, gentle, gee-whillikers Congressman from Illinois who retires this year as House minority leader. Like Gingrich, the G.O.P. hopefuls see themselves as mujahedin and Clinton as the Great Satan. As a smiling Gingrich told Clinton during a recent White House meeting...