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...this potential leverage does not necessarily translate into real gains in political clout or actual enforcement--a gap that threatens to turn the target communities into experimental guinea pigs, instead of the puzzle pieces that the Coalition wants to eventually fit into an overall plan. Given that the Coalition could persuade communities to restrict or ban handguns, they will be most valuable as test cases, both for the purposes of the activists, and for the understanding of the handgun problems. The results of such piecemeal bans may not support the goals of control advocates, but could shed light...
...Reagan could easily squander his clout if he insists on making every legislative proposal a rigid test of ideological wills, as some within the Administration seemed inclined to do. "Going over the head of Congress is not going to work this time unless he can show that the Democrats have become recalcitrants," says a member of the House Republican leadership. "He's got to try to work with Congress first." That hardly seemed to be too much to ask of any President, even one who carried 49 out of 50 States...
...largely because of the lessons those outside labor may learn from Mondale's 1984 defeat. "Future candidates would be crazy to go after a labor endorsement before the primaries," says William Schneider, an elections expert at the American Enterprise Institute. Concurs Analyst Baron: "Labor has clearly reduced its clout in the party in the future. A lot of state chairmen who were skeptical, but went along, are now saying, 'We won't let them do that to us again.' " -By Susan Tifft. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, with other bureaus
Jackson's good soldier phase may be temporary. Part of his motivation is a sincere desire to help discredit Ronald Reagan. Yet since a G.O.P. defeat seems unlikely, Jackson's more real hope is that a large black turnout will result in more clout for blacks-and for Jesse Jackson-within the party. "We intend on Nov. 6 to break a record and prove a point," he says. "Black voters are more loyal and disciplined than any other interest group in the Democratic Party. A new relationship is going to have to take into account new people...
...conservative President and the moderate (and once liberal) senator hardly share an ideological kinship. But Percy now basks in Reagan's light and welcomes Presidential visits to Illinois. His relationship with the President, his campaign argues, represents the "Illinois Advantage": Percy's got clout in the White House and can help bring jobs to Illinois. He touts the economic "miracle" of 1981-84. Yet during these "miraculous" years, the Illinois unemployment rate has risen from 8.1 per cent to 8.7 per cent. The state has lost more than 250,000 jobs in manufacturing industries alone. How's that for clout...