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Nonetheless, Dole plans more drug ads and, starting this week, new spots touting his tax cuts. Earlier ones fell flat, but these will feature not the figure 15% but instead $1,600--supposedly the amount a middle-class family would save each year. There will also be a relentless attempt to pin on Clinton that awful tag "liberal." Will it work? The question is almost irrelevant: this approach is just about all Dole has left...
...Reported by John F. Dickerson with Dole and Tamala M. Edwards/Washington
...seize the middle ground. He's running on such non-Democratic issues as term limits and a balanced budget, and has come out against gays in the military. Cleland has also distanced himself from President Clinton, who is not particularly popular in the state (polls show Clinton and Dole in a statistical dead heat). At the same time Cleland is reaching out to the Democratic base by supporting abortion rights and tying his opponent to the "extremist" Republican leadership in Congress. Democrats need to "stay in the sensible center" to win, Cleland says. "People want commonsense government...
...Clinton's veto of the ban on partial-birth abortion, some opponents saw more politics than principle behind the gesture. How better to portray Clinton as an extremist than by reminding voters that he had defended a practice that big majorities find repugnant? What better gift to give Bob Dole, as he searches for the wedge issues that might give him traction with the conservative and Roman Catholic voters who should form the base of his support...
...Senate takes up the motion to override this week, both sides are poised for a fight. Pro-choice activists never miss a chance to warn their supporters about the risk of further restricting abortion--especially if the Republicans control Congress and Dole lands in the White House. The pro-life army sees the override fight as a chance to brandish pictures of dismembered infants only weeks before the election. "It's all a matter of timing," said a top Dole aide. "As the veto override gets closer, the church and Christian groups will get more involved. It's a sleeping...