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GRAY DAVIS Calif. Gov. is centrist but only in office two years. State may be safe already. Too boring...
...reserved tables at two favorite luncheon haunts, the Palm and the Oval Room. Like every other presidential fund raiser, he has a say in political appointments. For ambassadorial jobs, Clinton has been known to give aides a list of candidates and ask, "What does Terry think?" McAuliffe is a centrist who claims he never takes up "issues" with the President. But Democratic sources say he can take credit for about 25 diplomatic postings from Madrid to Malta to the Dominican Republic...
...including a bruising primary fight that featured him cozying up to the religious right and running a singularly uncompassionate campaign against his opponent, John McCain. Which explains why Bush has spent the month since McCain withdrew trying to resuscitate his "compassionate conservative" message by issuing a series of conspicuously centrist--some might even say liberal--policy proposals. And also why his aides insist, on what seems to be an hourly basis, that whatever Bush is announcing that day proves yet again that "he's a different kind of Republican...
...purists, between presenting himself as a man of conviction and bending to public opinion, and between his vision of an expanded federal government and a strong position on state sovereignty. "For Bush, the challenge is to maintain his current position as popular among southern conservatives while attracting the suburban centrist vote," says TIME political correspondent John F. Dickerson. "It may seem that he has the conservative vote sewn up, but if they feel he's abandoned them, they can always stay home at the polls...
...percentage approach has managed to stay out of the presidential debates, but considering that two of the three states that use it are governed by men named Bush, it seems destined to become part of the election landscape, especially since polls list education as the most important issue to centrist swing voters. Just how big of an election issue this policy becomes could determine whether it's pushed to the forefront of state legislature debates in the coming year...