Word: democratics
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...coalition would, of course, contain the traditional elements of the Democratic Party but Clinton would have a good chance of reaching out to moderate Republicans alienated by the right-wing of their party and to both old and young voters, who disproportionately bear the burdens of the Republican budget. Though his coalition perhaps would not possess the size or endurance of FDR's New Deal coalition, Clinton would have a solid majority behind him, united by socially liberal, fiscally conservative stances on the issues-a return to his New Democrat platform...
Wattenberg, 62, a columnist and think tanker for the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, makes much of his Democratic credentials: if he refers to his years as a speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson once, he does so a dozen times. He lays out his lifetime voting record, which reveals he is that mottled beast, a Reagan Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And so he presents his book essentially as an open letter to Clinton, describing how the President has strayed from the centrist positions that got him elected and suggesting ways in which he--or whoever captures...
Given Wattenberg's unabashedly conservative positions on many issues--trying to eliminate the root causes of crime does not work, distributing condoms in the schools is wrong--one wonders why he has remained a Democrat as long as he has. He hints at the answer: "As fate had it, I had accumulated some small amount of influence in the ongoing Democratic dialogue. That was not something to squander." The result is a book that reads like a cynical proposal to land a big fat political consulting contract for the '96 election--and any candidate who heeds his words will...
...Senate's vanishing political middle shrank further when influential Kansas moderate Nancy Landon Kassebaum announced she would retire next year to pursue "the challenge of being a grandmother." She becomes the 10th Senator, and the second Republican, to leave office in 1996. In the House, Indiana Democrat Andrew Jacobs announced he would step down, the 18th Representative and 15th Democrat...
Giving President Lech Walesa what he described as "a slap on the cheek," Polish voters elected his challenger, Alexander Kwasniewski, with 51.7% of the vote. A former communist, Kwasniewski, 41, campaigned as a pro-Western, reform-minded Social Democrat. Said he: "The divisions between those who are former communists and those who were with Solidarity are not so important outside the intellectual circles of Warsaw...