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Clinton aides, who have long braced themselves for a renewed assault on the President's character, fired back Saturday with an ad charging that "to fight drugs, all Bob Dole offers are slogans: 'Just don't do it.'" The spot accuses Dole of having "voted to cut the President's school antidrug efforts--by 50%" and goes on to accuse Dole of nondrug offenses, including having "joined with Newt Gingrich to cut vaccines for children." The ad, and probably others to follow, seeks to shift the battleground to Dole's whole record--wrong, in Clinton's eyes, on many popular...
This approach is unlikely to divert Dole from the drug issue. But it is most uncertain whether that will really give him much traction. "Cataclysmic" is how a Dole adviser describes the effect of a government survey purporting to show that teenage drug use doubled from 1992 to 1995. But polls of voters taken even after that widely publicized finding still rank drugs roughly fifth among the issues that most concern the electorate (the economy is No. 1). One reason may be that people do not see among their own children and the children's classmates quite as great...
Also, even before the latest exchange, Clinton had proved himself to be an expert counterpuncher. In response to an earlier Dole drug ad, the Clinton campaign last week ran a spot announcing, among other things, that the President "now wants drug testing [of prisoners] to keep abusers locked up." That was illustrated by a cell door slamming shut...
Moreover, the Dole campaign continues to self-destruct. Even worse than taking a tumble, which resulted in pictures of the candidate helpless on the ground, and referring to the "Brooklyn Dodgers" (who moved to Los Angeles almost 40 years ago), Dole last week let Clinton win the endorsement of the nation's largest police union virtually by default...
Clinton had been wooing the police for years, by securing federal funding to put more cops on the beat and pushing gun-control measures (Dole opposed both). Still, there was enough Republican loyalty in the Fraternal Order of Police for its officers to give Dole an equal chance to win its endorsement. The F.O.P. sent both candidates a questionnaire about police issues. The White House replied with thoughtful answers, Dole's aides with canned rhetoric. Then union officers asked for personal interviews. Dole's staff responded with a form letter saying the candidate was too busy, but "we will keep...