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...term, the once scorned President has generally had a double-digit lead in the polls. He has adopted so many traditional Republican themes that the g.o.p. has nothing much to campaign on except character and taxes. And Bob Dole's tax plan gives Clinton a chance, rare for a Democrat, to run as a fiscal conservative virtuously resisting the seductive appeal of tax cuts that might make the budget deficit skyrocket anew...
Still, the questions nag even at voters reluctantly ready to opt for Clinton on Nov. 5: Who is it that they will be casting their ballots for? The government-must-do-more Democrat elected four years ago? Or the President Bob Dole has taunted as trying "to be a good Republican" in order to win re-election? Or will a second term reveal some yet-unseen Clinton, entering the first four-year period of his adult life in which he does not have to worry about the next election and free at last to do...what...
However, a senior Clinton aide says of the President, "He gets it now. He knows what people want. After the election, he is not going to suddenly veer left and start proposing big Old Democrat solutions. Joycelyn Elders is not coming back, O.K.? No Lani Guinier." Moreover, given a continuing effort to balance the budget and the certainty that Republicans will retain a powerful voice in Congress--possibly still a majority--there will be neither money nor votes for any grandiose schemes...
Given the impression that Clinton is trying to run on both the Democratic and Republican tickets this season, it was no surprise that he would invite Indiana Governor Evan Bayh to give the keynote address Tuesday night. Since taking office in 1989, Bayh has often had an easier time working with G.O.P. legislators than with his own Democratic allies as he set new records for fiscal stringency: no tax hikes in the 1990s and the biggest budget surplus in state history. A shining New Democrat, Bayh is expected to challenge Senator Dan Coats in 1998 for the seat Bayh...
...Democrats convene in Chicago within a few blocks of some of the nation's most downtrodden neighborhoods, Clinton and his Administration reek of tin-plated noblesse oblige. When he signed the new law last week, the President boasted that it would help the poor rediscover the value of "work and family and independence." But the new system he brags so piously about provides few realistic ways for the poor to uplift themselves beyond insisting that they tug at their bootstraps. Clinton argues that those who still believe that the Federal Government has a duty to try to eradicate poverty should...