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Lamar Alexander is another can-do centrist. A pro-choicer, he had a good record as Tennessee's Governor and a better one as George Bush's Education Secretary. He quietly won support during the 1994 season, but his ability to raise serious money remains questionable. His message too is problematic. Sending power and responsibility back to the states is politically attractive, but if Congress shows it can produce, Dole will have the better of the argument. A new entrant, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, will visit Iowa and New Hampshire this week. Specter too is pro-choice, but his intense...
Even if none of these four captures the nomination, their strength could moderate the party's platform, ensure a centrist running mate and further complicate Clinton's re-election calculations. "If the Dems can't label us as the antiabortion party," says Stone, "that robs them big time...
...Democratic Leadership Council -- a centrist group that President Clinton helped start while a governor, then used as a springboard to the presidency -- today warned that many American voters see him as a big-government liberal and not the "New Democrat" he campaigned as in 1992. The evidence? Clinton's own pollster, Stan Greenberg, ran a national poll and focus-group interviews for the DLC right after the midterm elections. The results: More than half of the growing bloc of independent voters --- who now make up 30 percent of the electorate -- clearly repudiated the Democrats and Clinton's term...
...More centrist Clinton advisers hope that a more Republican Congress will allow the President to shift toward the political center, recapturing the New Democrat themes that helped elect him in 1992 and will serve him well in 1996. But these sources sound more wishful than confident. And there are complications, including the risk of angering Democrats on the left and inspiring someone like Jesse Jackson to run as an independent and divert votes from Clinton. "Many people are alienated and are finding the parties indistinguishable on matters that are vital," Jackson warned in an interview with TIME. "That...
...neither of which cares much about the main religious-right issues. One consists of neo-Reaganite economic conservatives more concerned with tax cuts and smaller government than with abortion and school prayer. It's in that group that Gramm and Kemp feel most at home. The other, which includes centrist Republicans of the Gerald Ford and George Bush variety, is the camp from which Dole, Cheney, Baker and Alexander all spring...