Word: gore
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Clinton and Gore continue to run on pseudo-Republican steam: fighting crime, fighting drugs, fighting the deficit. They offer sensible government, though not too big, and not too encompassing. Universal health care has been tossed aside by everyone except the First Lady. And welfare has been cast off as the failed policy remnants of a prior era, all while selling out the poor and betraying several decades of Democratic principles. The biggest hope for Democratic initiative in the next four years is a jobs bill which would hopefully correct for some of the externalities of the newer, sleeker American economy...
Unless or until Bob Dole gets moving, there will be only two interesting questions about Campaign '96: Can the Republicans keep control of the Congress, and will Al Gore or Jack Kemp show better in the game within the game--the race to be best positioned to strike for the top in 2000? Local factors, not presidential coattails, will largely govern the House and Senate contests, but Gore-Kemp is a national battle everyone can watch and measure...
...Veepstakes is only a backdrop. Gore and Kemp may face each other four years from now, but at this point the real race for both men is against potential rather than present enemies. "For us," says Democrat Bob Kerrey, speaking for those like Dick Gephardt and Chris Dodd who would deny Gore that chance, "how Al does this time will shape the race for next time--and the same is so with Jack for the other side." Why? "Money, mostly." For at least the next two years every person bitten by the presidential bug will be scrambling for political...
...their current face-off, Gore, surprisingly, is doing better than Kemp. The first test came during the two party conventions. Both men did well, "but Gore actually turned things around," says Frank Luntz, the G.O.P. pollster who used focus groups to analyze the various convention performances. "Before the conventions," says Luntz, "Kemp was preferred over Gore. After they spoke, Gore surged ahead, a reversal due entirely to Gore's home-run speech...
...expected the wooden Gore to outshine the kinetic Kemp, but he did it again last Tuesday, when both men spoke to a group of Jewish leaders in New York. Kemp's pandering was so obvious that Gore, who had a partisan refutation in his pocket, instead delivered a statesmanlike talk boldly confirming the Administration's frustration with the anti-Palestinian policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who sat glumly only five feet away. The next crucial confrontation will come in the vice-presidential debate next month...