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WASHINGTON: Depending on your outlook, Republicans have either started hitting below the belt or stopped ignoring the elephant in the room. Either way, the blitz of GOP attack ads launched in key districts Tuesday night -- with the RNC?s stamp of approval ?- means an end to the tacit agreement between the parties that the Lewinsky affair would not play a large role in the fall campaign. One commercial features two women discussing whether it?s "OK to lie"; another asks if voters should "reward not telling the truth"; a third uses the video, but not the audio, of the President...
...responsible for the sudden reversal? Step forward, the usual suspects: Opinion pollsters. Less than a week before the election, the GOP finds itself running neck-and-neck with Democrats in national polls of likely voters; a good, solid wedge issue is required to get out the core right-wing vote. And what issue in America ?- save, perhaps, abortion -- is more divisive and inflammatory than the Clinton scandal? Curiously enough, the new campaign comes as a new FEC report shows Republicans outspending Democrats by a hefty $92 million. With all that cash, maybe they?ll be able to afford a sound...
...Clinton is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the midterm races. With the estimated turnout heading for a historic low, even the Republican leadership concedes that November 3 is going to be won or lost on state-specific issues. "This is clearly an 'all politics is local' kind of election," said GOP campaign boss Senator Mitch McConnell. "I never did believe it was a referendum on Bill Clinton," added Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.). Linder and other party luminaries expect a 10-to-15-seat Republican gain in the House next Tuesday. Anything less than that, and Clinton will be able...
...company that was once loath to play in the political sandbox, Microsoft sure has come around. Mere days before the opening of Microsoft?s court battle with antitrust lawyers, the GOP?s senatorial committee pulled in a $100,000 contribution from the company, and the Republican National Committee got a $40,000 check ?- bringing the software giant?s soft-money gifts to the party to more than $400,000 in the 1997-98 election cycle. Coincidentally, about that time, 10 Republican senators signed a ?Dear Colleague? letter criticizing the Clinton administration for subjecting the software industry to ?needless regulation through...
...Dylan won't be the only hand laid off from Maggie's farm -- unless the government steps in, which is why Thursday's budget deal included $6 billion in farm aid. For the GOP, agreeing to the bailout meant suspending their quest to slash federal farm subsidies. "Republicans would have been hard-pressed to cut back on government spending to farmers in a year when the agricultural community has been badly hit by the Asian crisis and falling commodity prices," says TIME's senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. The bad news, however, is that with U.S. agriculture heavily reliant...