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...hope that the upcoming debates among the candidates (whether or not Perot is included) will address hard-core issues important to Americans. Perot has ruined a great opportunity to expand American democracy. Dole has disappointed as a viable alternative to the President. And Clinton continues to govern from the middle, maintaining the status quo. All we ask for is some dynamism focused on policy rather than public relations...
Unless or until Bob Dole gets moving, there will be only two interesting questions about Campaign '96: Can the Republicans keep control of the Congress, and will Al Gore or Jack Kemp show better in the game within the game--the race to be best positioned to strike for the top in 2000? Local factors, not presidential coattails, will largely govern the House and Senate contests, but Gore-Kemp is a national battle everyone can watch and measure...
Kemp has the greater burden, but not because he and Dole may be buried in a landslide. In actively courting minority voters--a sideshow wholly separate from Dole's effort--Kemp has set himself against recent Republican history. "All too often in the past," Kemp said not long ago, Republicans have "had that Southern strategy that said we want to go after the white vote and had better not try to get black votes because it might lose those white votes. That is shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where...
...borrow Nelson Rockefeller's words, no politician with an ego--which means all politicians--has ever wanted to be "vice president of anything." But being Veep is still the surest road to the top, which is why Gore-Kemp will be worth watching even if Clinton-Dole never rises beyond a boring done deal...
...presidential campaign trail, Bob Dole has been promoting a plan to give 4 million low- and middle-income students vouchers worth $1,000 or $1,500 and usable for public, private or parochial schools. States and the Federal Government would split the $5 billion cost. While dead set against using public money to send children to private school, the White House supports a form of school choice in which parents could shop among competing public schools. That means magnet schools, which offer enhanced programs, or the independent "charter" schools, now found in many states, which set their own rules...