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...real sign from the right came that night after dinner. Newt Gingrich told his staff he was attending a function in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Afterward he slipped onto the Beltway to McLean, where he arrived at Powell's front door sometime after eight. If Powell wanted some protection on his right flank, Gingrich would be essential. For weeks the Speaker had made positive if guarded comments about the general. But he had not done anything to actively push him into the race...
Until Thursday. In their meeting that night, Gingrich did nothing to discourage Powell from running. The two men repaired to the library, where they talked for two hours about the demands of a race and the toll it would take on Powell's private life. Gingrich believed a campaign would succeed--but only if Powell wanted it very badly. And as the Thursday night session ended, Powell was ready...
...mostly by Robert Dole. Powell Democrats drift back to Bill Clinton. But having been beguiled by the dream of a third way, voters won't go happily, and quite a few will be ready to run off again with any newcomer who talks their language. Take your pick. Newt Gingrich, Jesse Jackson, Ross Perot or one of his surrogates. Some late bloomer in the New Hampshire primary field. It will be a while before the restless American electorate has sorted out its discontents and settled on its candidates...
...ground in places they had lost badly in recent years. In Kentucky, where Clinton bashing was a foolproof formula in the '94 congressional races, it didn't work for G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate Larry Forgy. The winner was Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Patton, who turned the tables and made Newt Gingrich the boogeyman in his campaign. In Virginia, Republicans were stopped just short of gaining control of the state legislature for the first time ever...
...stay at $245 billion over seven years, but the most die-hard among them even want to make the $500-a-child tax credit apply to this year. But there too deal cutting is likely. "They have two highly competitive desires: to balance the budget and a tax cut," Gingrich says of the freshmen. "At some point, you've got to say, 'O.K., which has precedence?' And I think, in the end, balancing the budget does...