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...Congress. "Unlike with NAFTA, it's a Republican Congress this time, and free trade is a natural GOP issue," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "They've made a major concession to Clinton by agreeing to vote on this as soon as May 22, mainly because most of them want to claim this victory too." But the fact that it's China this time loses a lot of right-wing Republicans over human rights and nuclear spying. So Branegan says the vote may hinge on how many Democrats Clinton can hang on to, which means somehow convincing the labor crowd...
This spring's knock-down, drag-out, sticks-and-stones primary between George W. Bush and John McCain had to be the most high-profile, rancorous and riveting GOP battle in most party elephants' memory. Now it's Big Tent time, with the first of several planned grip-and-grin summits between the anointed and the heretic going down Tuesday in Pittsburgh. How do these two make it convincing? "They'll start by heaping praise on one another for the press, and will genially agree to disagree on whatever they have to," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. "McCain will...
...same ones W. was decrying as nefarious Democrat poachers during the primaries - to beat Gore. McCain is looking to get back into the Republican church. That's why he'll not only come out for Bush but will also be seen hitting the stumps all summer in support of GOP House and Senate candidates who could use some of that Straight Talk magic for their own crossover yearnings. "He needs to show he's got chits in the party," says Carney, if he wants to increase his leverage in the Senate - or run for the nomination again, Reagan-style...
...working hard throughout the decade to register and get out the Latino vote, regarding its as a core constituency that can keep the presidency in their hands for some time to come, while Governor Bush's popularity among Texan Latino voters was one of his earliest selling points among GOP leaders. Vieques' coming hard on the heels of Elian may giving the vice president something of a sleepless springtime...
...Democrats are looking to regain control of the House of Representatives, which they lost in 1994. They need to capture six seats from the GOP...