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...agree or disagree with McCain or Bradley on other social or fiscal issues. But campaign finance reform lays the groundwork for all other reforms. Democrat or Republican, a president who won't fight to stop the unlimited flow of soft money--$750 million projected to be spent on this year's election cycle alone--also won't be able to pass common sense reforms that the majority of the country wants. Is it really a coincidence that the only major reforms we have seen in the Clinton presidency addressed immigration and welfare? While welfare recipients and immigrants are not known...
...that very well." The South Carolina team--which includes Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler, former Governor David Beasley and top G.O.P. operative Warren Tompkins--was less concerned about redefining Bush as a reformer than about turning McCain into a liberal or, as one of them put it, "worse than a Democrat." "McCain's not an outsider," said one. "He's an insider. When I hear this populist stuff, it makes me wanna throw...
DIED. CARL ALBERT, 91, Oklahoma Democrat and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1971 to '77; in McAlester, Okla. A coal miner's son, he represented Oklahoma's Third District for 30 years until retiring in 1977 and twice stood a heartbeat away from the presidency. A pragmatist, he said, "I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy...
...Hampshire win vaulted him into a dead heat with Bush in South Carolina polls, McCain's momentum appears to have slowed, with the two remaining neck-and-neck over the past week. And if W.'s ads and newfound aggressiveness change some Republican hearts and minds while keeping Democrat and independent turnout low, South Carolina - and the GOP nomination - is his. The risk, of course, in staking everything is that while South Carolina could be his Gettysburg, it could also be his Waterloo...
...high cost of tuition has an intense personal impact on individual families," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the committee. "But if college becomes a luxury that an increasing percentage of the population cannot afford, the economic divide between the have and the have-nots could undercut the American dream and stunt the nation's economic growth...