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...doesn't, Dole is still in double-digit trouble, the kind that only a few presidential candidates have pulled themselves out of after Labor Day. So long as the Morris affair is still working its way through the media system, Clinton is in some trouble too. It's true that he has been through worse moments. But this time he won't have Morris to help him get through...
Republican images of children tend to be either the unborn variety or little Sally and Tommy holding empty bankbooks in their hands. Bob Dole always cites children in the context that it isn't fair to pass our debts on to them. The Democratic imagery in Chicago veered between idealized Gerber babies (after his speech, President Clinton played peekaboo with brother Roger's cherubic toddler) and children besieged by a host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore...
...Chicago last week for the nation's two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the scene appeared straight out of one of those old melodramas with vocal audience participation. The guest speaker, Vice President Al Gore, had only to mention the villains--Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, "the Ginsu gang," who "tried to chop, slice and dice all those things that are important to us"--and hisses filled the air. The heroes, too, were just as easy to identify. "We love all our teachers," Gore told the pumped-up, cheering crowd...
...votes of the majority of members of the N.E.A. and the smaller A.F.T., a politically active bloc some 2.5 million strong that traditionally backs Democratic candidates. (Since it was established in 1972, the N.E.A. political-action committee has never endorsed a Republican for President.) But in July, Dole began attacking these organizations by name, railing against the evil influence of "the teachers' unions" much as George Bush used to invoke the A.C.L.U. During his speech to the Republican Convention in San Diego, Dole fulminated, "I say this not to the teachers, but to their unions: If education were...
...Dole's attack on the teachers' unions is "the single most mystifying thing we've seen,'' says White House press secretary Mike McCurry. Notes Joe Lockhart, press secretary for the Clinton-Gore campaign: "People don't see the teachers as Big Labor, like the Steelworkers." But they do see an education system in terrible disarray, and last week's back-to-school headlines brought fresh evidence: 91,000 students without classroom space in New York City, a bankrupt board closing schools in the District of Columbia, buildings crumbling, test scores falling. Voters are looking for someone to blame...