Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton was neither a demagogue nor a Demo-GOP. Instead, he became what he had promised to be in 1992 and throughout his career. a raging centrist who would fight for middle class interests and mainstream values. In 1994, voters didn't vote for a "do nothing" government. They wanted a government that works and has real accomplishments on real problems. For all the criticism of Clinton's "little programs," school construction, teenage curfews, and child literacy have a lot bigger impact on American families than the "big ideas" that some inside the Beltway demanded...
...presidential bid into the powerful Christian Coalition. What's next? A slate of credible Reform House and Senate candidates in 1998 would build a more effective party machine and dispel the cult-of-personality image as Perot's captive audience. If major party candidates find themselves courting the centrist Reform vote in 2000 and beyond, the new party can have a significant impact on policy without winning a single election; witness the political energy dedicated to deficit reduction since Perot appeared on national television with his charts and graphs...
Pouland, a self-proclaimed centrist, was Texas coordinator for Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. But after a stint as a General Services Administration official, he has taken up the anti-government mantle, believing that 250,000 federal jobs could be cut without cutting services. If elected, Pouland vows to serve a maximum of six years even if term limits are not in place by the end of his third term. Though the district has been redrawn, this race attracted no new candidates...
...House, his youth didn't soften his conservative agenda: he voted to ease the Clean Water Act and to relax a law excluding court evidence illegally obtained by police. His proposal to bar illegal immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens was passed in modified form this fall. In this centrist district, Tate is running a close race with Adam Smith...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The average American is discouraged with the partisan 'showdown and shutdown' approach in Washington. They want elected officials who will...take the common-sense, centrist approach that most Americans endorse...