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...constitutionally incapable of confessing that they have no idea what will happen in a presidential race; they are irresistibly driven to impose some sort of structure on the most shapeless contest. Last year many were looking for someone to cast as the principal rival to presumed front-runner Mario Cuomo. They came up with Clinton partly because he seemed the perfect foil to a Northern Big Government liberal: a Southerner who took many moderate stands -- on education and welfare reform, for example -- and talked constantly about the "responsibility" of people who receive government benefits to do something in return...
...other special interests. Supposedly they could win again only if they chose a candidate moderate enough to win back middle-class voters, especially Southern whites. That idea was promoted most assiduously by the Democratic Leadership Council, a group headed in 1990-91 by none other than Bill Clinton. When Cuomo finally decided just before Christmas not to run, pundits of this school were pretty much stuck with hailing Clinton as the new front runner by default. Some who had complained endlessly about the interminable length of past campaigns are even beginning to grumble that this one may be over almost...
...race for the presidency, an office he has been preparing to occupy for "at least 10 years," largely by learning from the losses of Democratic wannabes. So while luck has played a role -- Clinton's competitors have yet to catch on, heavy hitters like Jesse Jackson and Mario Cuomo chose not to run, and the end of the cold war makes it less important that a candidate demonstrate foreign policy expertise -- the fact that Clinton leads the Democratic pack in New Hampshire is hardly accidental. Clinton may not win, and he may not deserve to; he has yet to prove...
...most impressive example of Clinton's influencing luck was his decision to avoid bashing Mario Cuomo after Cuomo struck at Clinton's hard-nosed welfare-reform stands. "Everybody wanted me to go after Cuomo to define myself as the alternative," he says, "but that risked my being tagged as the conservative candidate. Besides, while all the evidence suggested that Mario would run, I wasn't absolutely sure that he would, and I didn't want to do or say anything that might goad him into the race...
...buck; others are searching for adventure. There are even two people named Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. Harvard's Jeffrey D. Sachs, 37, is better known. But there is also Jeffrey A. Sachs, 38, a dentist who was once a social-policy adviser to New York Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. Jeffrey A. runs Ecolink, a New York City-based project that is trying to show the Russians how to use public finance to build an AIDS hospital in Moscow and grain-storage facilities...