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Morris urged Clinton to use his Saturday radio address, which has become a kind of toughlove matinee, to come out in favor of the Wisconsin plan before Dole could assail him for opposing it--never mind that Wisconsin hadn't sent in the whole request, and no one had fully reviewed it. In the White House this kind of move has a name: "prebuttal." Because the Wisconsin plan includes substantial spending for child care, health and job training, the White House was able to claim that it is much closer to Clinton's current welfare proposals than to the Republican...
From here on, though, the candidates are moving into ideological territory where finessing becomes harder or where the other just can't follow. For both Clinton and Dole a big minefield is affirmative action. Last week the Administration announced new rules on government contracting that disallow all strict set-aside provisions that require specific numbers for minority contractors. But they still allow "race-conscious" procurement as long as Justice Department studies of each affected industry find credible evidence of discrimination. The rules reflect the "Mend it, don't end it" approach Clinton announced last summer--a fairly gutsy and clear...
...Dole also has a clear position on affirmative action, albeit a new one: he introduced legislation last year to end all federal racial and gender preferences, after having supported them for two decades. So he too must tread carefully and slowly. First, affirmative action may be the most pointed arrow in his quiver, and he may prefer to save it until later in the contest. But more immediately, Dole knows it would be quite unwise to make an overhaul of affirmative action a campaign issue as long as he clings to even the slimmest prospect of attracting Colin Powell...
...next debate facing Dole is what to do about taxes. After drawing nearly all the blood from Bob Dole's political body during their primary bout, Steve Forbes went to Washington last week to join the great Republican transfusion. He was there to help Dole devise an appealing economic message, beyond the vague verbal parsley in his speeches about abolishing the irs and replacing it with "a flatter, fairer, simpler" income tax. Though Republicans know well from experience the appeal of tax reform, Dole runs a risk by adopting the supply-side theories he has long disparaged and swelling...
...Thus the Dole version of tax cuts is likely to be something closer to supply-side lite. His plan will rely more on the promise that a Republican Congress, working with a sympathetic President, could rein in spending enough to cut taxes way back as well. And that is where Clinton gets his opening: if elected, he will argue, the Republicans will revert to their true nature and make up the shortfalls by gutting Medicare and kicking welfare mothers and children into the street. Republicans are starting to make a similar argument about Clinton and what a second term would...