Word: gop
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...failing to deliver in 1994, according to a new poll by Newt Gingrich's favorite pollster. But the survey -- conducted by Frank Luntz for a consortium of major hospitals, managed-care companies and pharmaceutical firms that actively opposed the Clinton plan -- says the public would still favor a GOP-backed plan, sight-unseen, over any new Clinton initiative, 44 to 32 percent. Although few people expect Republicans to deliver anything next year, the poll indicates there's still an appetite for change: Seven of eight surveyed said they wanted basic reforms to allow workers to stay insured if they lose...
...shoulders much of the blame for Democrats' failure to "speak to the growing sense of insecurity" among workers whose wages are stagnant or shrinking. The Gephardt proposal would offer an unspecified tax break for all taxpayers who earn up to $75,000 a year -- less dramatic than the current GOP proposal to cut taxes for families with incomes of as much as $200,000 a year with a $500-per-child tax credit. "The question is going to become, at what point to do they set off a bidding war?" says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "It's similar...
...Boston Globe, argues for "a passionate center party that's inclusive socially and prepared to make the hard choices fiscally . . . if it is led by the right person." The key ingredient, he writes, is "the kind of moral authority the Administration clearly does not have and that the (GOP's) 'Contract with America' cannot provide, since it is poll-driven." Tsongas told the Globe that Powell has received a copy of the memo, but that they have not discussed it. For his part, the politically-unaffiliated general told an audience last month: "I think there is a possibility...
Barring any last-minute snafu, the Republican Party will hold its 1996 convention in San Diego. The GOP national committee's site selection panel issued the decision today, authorizing negotiations with city officials to work out any kinks in staging the Aug. 12-15 event there. Even though nothing's final, the full Republican National Committee's vote is considered a formality because the Southern California city has RNC chairman Haley Barbour's enthusiastic backing. Gov. Pete Wilson, the state's top official and a potential presidential candidate, was a popular San Diego mayor.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
President Clinton announced today that he'll convene a bipartisan meeting of governors and mayors in January in an effort to fix "our country's broken welfare system." In a clear effort to beat GOP welfare-bashers to the high ground as part of his centrist post-election swing, Clinton -- in a statement -- described the current welfare system as a "bad deal for the taxpayers who pay the bills and for the families who are trapped on it." Newly-empowered GOP leaders, meanwhile, have their own designs on the issue: House Republicans want to abolish more than 100 social programs...