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COLUMBUS, Ohio: Taking a page from his successful cross-country bus trip President Clinton roared toward the Democratic National Convention aboard the "21st Century Express" with a re- election pitch for voters: "No U-turn. Stay on the right track." Clinton is on a four-day, five-state campaign before arriving in Chicago to accept the Democratic nomination. The trip, which will take him through West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, is designed to whip up excitement for a convention that promises few surprises. Each day the President will unveil a proposed second-term initiative to show...
...rumored Veep picks. The first African American to hold statewide executive office in Ohio, Blackwell has a resume that includes stints as city councilman, an ambassador to the U.N., and Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...
...Perot organization is mainly a one-man band. Perot's cabinet isn't big enough to fill a kitchen. Russell Verney is the all-around organizer, spinmeister, and aide-de-camp. A former air-traffic controller who ran for Congress as a Democrat in New Hampshire, he has brought some order to the Perot operation where others have failed. Clay Mulford, Perot's son-in-law, a big-time corporate lawyer, is the resident expert on arcane election and finance issues. Perot has a part-time pollster in Gordon Black, who provides memos on message and tactics but typically gets...
...issues the Republican contender had been counting on to gain traction in the campaign. Political strategists figured a veto might cost the President about five points in the polls, but Clinton could endure that with plenty to spare. A veto, however, would have repudiated the entire moderate, New Democrat stance--champion of family values, balanced budgets, more cops on the streets--that Clinton had been cultivating so assiduously since the rout of the Democrats in the 1994 elections. And, of course, there was that matter of his 1992 pledge to "end welfare as we know...
...once. Why? Fear. A Washington adage says members of Congress care about only three things: getting re-elected, getting re-elected and getting re-elected. When Republicans returned from their July 4 recess, a privately distributed poll by G.O.P. pollster Richard Wirthlin showed that voters would prefer a Democrat to a Republican as their representative by 5 percentage points. In 1994 it took only a 2-point advantage the other way round for Republicans to win control of the House and the Senate...