Word: doles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the late-breaking run at Clinton's character was wrong from the start, not because it was unfair but because Dole never quite believed in doing it. Clinton aides, trying to anticipate where the President was most vulnerable, had shown footage to focus groups of him shifting ground on health-care reform and tax cuts and whether he had inhaled. The reaction was so devastating, the consultants burned the videocassettes. But the man who said his word is his bond could never find the right words to attack Clinton's character...
...Dole knows exactly where he's going too. For once, it's all scheduled well in advance. On election night he will hold a rally at a Washington hotel called the Renaissance. At midnight he will get on a plane for Florida, and either start thinking about whom to put in his Cabinet, or start thinking about what to do with the rest of his life...
...first on Monday night, Dole will go home to one of those places only the unknowing call myth. A flag big enough to gift wrap a house will roll above the Interstate leading into Russell; the marquee of the Dream Cinema on Main Street will welcome him home. After the fourth campaign, it is almost a scripted event; the original Dolls for Dole will be there, along with the band and the drill team and the junior rotc and the guys from the VFW post. The people of Russell will all come out, glad to do what they have done...
...myriad strategic decisions made in both presidential candidates' camps, two did more than any others to shape the race. Bob Dole's 15% tax cut turned out to be a turkey; voters never came to believe he could give them a break and balance the budget. Bill Clinton's signature on a Republican-drafted welfare-reform bill, over the anguished screams of party liberals, turned out to be so popular that the President bragged about it over and over to enthusiastic crowds in Florida last week...
...little of his own thoughts that key aides are unsure until the very end how he will come down? That description was written many times about Clinton during his first two years in office, but only portions of it tally with his welfare decision--whereas it fits perfectly Dole's ruminations on tax policy...