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...ballot. Because of the country's Nazi past and continuing attacks by neo-Nazi skinheads, public support for far-right organizations is closely monitored in Germany. What's more, ballots for the Republicans are generally regarded as protest votes that would normally go to the more centrist cdu. In the 1996 election, the Republicans received 9.1% of the votes in Baden-Württemberg, but the prognosis for this year is just 5%. "I think this year the Republicans will do less well than last time," says Hajo Funke, an expert on the extreme right at the Free University...
...investments, which create productivity and jobs and tax revenues." Many Democrats aren't wild about triggers either--but for very different reasons. "My preference is to reduce the size of the tax cut so triggers aren't necessary," says Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. And both sides fear a centrist bill will provide political cover for pols too fainthearted to back Bush--or to stand with Daschle against the President...
...peddling an idea first raised by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan--whose seal of approval is to economic policy what Good Housekeeping's is to home appliances--the centrist bloc instantly seized the fiscal high ground. Bush insists that the surplus, projected to be $5.6 trillion over the next decade, can easily accommodate his $1.6 trillion tax cut. But while government number crunchers are fairly accurate when predicting revenues over the next year or two, they are notoriously unreliable six or more years down the line, when more than two-thirds of the Bush cuts would take effect...
...Tuesday, it was centrist John Breaux, and he doesn't sound like he's alone. "If it was up for a vote in its current form, I would vote against it," he told reporters. "Many of us have concluded that it creates a very unlevel playing field between the two parties and I don't think that's what we should...
...Democrats' wildly successful 2000 Senate fund-raising operation, the New Jersey senator's flights from the prospect of success on this issue have become legendary - after all, his first job was to vote the party's pocketbook. Now out of the post but eager to craft a more centrist image, he's having second thoughts all over again...