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ALBANY, N.Y.--Gov. Mario Cuomo, being urged to run by his closest advisers, will talk presidential politics with Democratic National Chairman Ron Brown sometime around Election Day, a top Cuomo aide said yesterday...
Brown has said he wants party heavyweights such as Cuomo and Jesse Jackson to make their plans known about the 1992 race by this year's Nov. 5 election...
...wants a decision by Election Day so I think it's reasonable for the two of them to sit down around then," said John Marino, the New York party chair and a close Cuomo adviser, of Brown's request...
Whether they cannot conjure an alternative course (or perhaps because they simply disagree with Clinton), the Democrats in Congress are preparing to aid their colleagues' White House quest by adopting Mario Cuomo's advice: "Pass a lot of bills that combine to form a Democratic domestic agenda and dare the President to veto them." Thus, reasons Cuomo, the Democrats can both engage Bush and set the terms of discourse...
...surface, Cuomo's thesis is unassailable, and two likely Democratic initiatives -- health-care legislation and a tax-rate cut for middle-class Americans -- will resonate among voters. But like any other incumbent President, Bush has an almost limitless ability to co-opt the agenda. The Democrats have already been forced to respond to Bush's vision of education reform, and his flip-flop on the issue of extending unemployment benefits proves his political suppleness...