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Less successful were attempts to convince voters that the party had shifted from radical socialism to more centrist policies. During the campaign, Kinnock dismissed some of his old positions as "errors of judgment," among them his insistence on unilateral nuclear disarmament and the renationalization of some state assets sold off by the Conservatives. Why the switch? "We lost three elections," said Jack Cunningham, Labour's campaign coordinator. "That is good enough reason to change policy." Many voters were left doubting Labour's sincerity. "Labour jettisoned its ideological baggage without acquiring any new ideas distinctively its own," says Anthony King...
Clinton has raised more than a few eyebrows by campaigning first as a centrist -- when he expected his principal opposition for the Democratic nomination to come from the liberal Mario Cuomo -- and then as a more traditional liberal, when he lost New Hampshire to Tsongas' attack from the right. Actually, these switches amounted to little more than the tactical shifts between what to emphasize and what to downplay that all politicians make and that are fairly legitimate, so long as they do not involve switches in actual positions -- which Clinton generally has not made. Even so, he has opened himself...
...accident of birth I was commanding them and not they me." He and his wife Jane settled in the Somerset town of Yeovil, from which Ashdown was elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1983. After the 1987 collapse of the Liberal alliance with the Social Democrats -- mainly centrist defectors from Labour -- the two parties merged and chose Ashdown as leader...
...fall Bush will be playing his strongest card and that even in a world of reduced threats Clinton must pass the threshold test: Can Americans trust him as Commander in Chief? Better, then, to lay some markers down early, especially when his critique and prescriptions are essentially centrist. There is also the possibility for an elegant piece of what Mario Cuomo calls "political jujitsu" -- stealing your opponent's thunder in an area he is perceived as owning...
...characteristic that large campaign donors seem to have in common is that they are wealthy--and intend to say that way. They tend to be conservative, which is why centrist candidates like Bill Clinton, a former chair of the conservative Democratic Leadership Council, often attract the most money...