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Perot was, and became again, a tougher problem. The Governor rejected any idea of adopting a more traditionally liberal program in hopes of holding enough of the Democrats' core constituency -- perhaps 35% of the vote -- to eke out victory in a three-man race. Clinton insisted on sticking with his broadly based centrist program and was quickly -- though temporarily -- rewarded. Not only did Perot quit the race, as some in the Clinton camp had rather wistfully predicted; he did it on July 16, only hours before Clinton delivered his acceptance speech to the Democratic Convention. For good measure, the mercurial...
People in both parties are "moderates" these days. They pick and choose issues from each party and try to eke out some kind of political philosophy from that. Or they just follow Ross Perot, who claims to be in the middle, but doesn't seem to have any political philosophy at all. In my home state Pennsylvania, where people stick to party lines, the Democratic governor sounds more like a Republican with his anti-abortion, anti-birth control stances than the Republican senators, who favor more liberal programs...
...industrial wasteland is simply not cut out to headline at the Grand Ol' Opry. Most of the other tracks are just folkish filler. The only entertaining thing about the aimless, boring "We Hate it When Our Friends Succeed" is the title. It's mystery how he's managed to eke a hit out of the meager, colorless tune...
...Camp David was the zenith of his career, his ineptness in economic policy nearly proved his undoing. By 1981 the Likud trailed in the polls. Just three weeks before elections, Begin ordered the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor. The raid, which helped the Likud eke out a narrow victory, signaled a newly aggressive Israeli military policy. On June 6, 1982, army tanks rolled into Lebanon. The country paid a high price: more than 600 of its soldiers died, and 3,000 were wounded. There were also psychological scars after Israel permitted Christian Phalangist militiamen to enter the Palestinian refugee...
...Republican policies." He accused "the Governor of Arkansas" of being too sympathetic to Japanese automobile imports. Belatedly he began running TV spots that ply the theme "I want to be known as the President that rebuilt America." Harkin thinks that as the only red-blooded liberal, he can eke out a plurality among traditional Democrats while his sound-alike rivals divide the rest. But this year even some labor chiefs and left-leaning activists yearn for a winner who can reach well beyond the New Deal heritage. So far, Harkin isn't even trying...