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According to Stan Greenberg, the White House pollster, Americans believe the prospect for change is improving now that Clinton has turned his attention to such middle-of-the-road concerns as health care, free trade and "reinventing" government. A day after his health-care speech, Clinton flew to Florida for a Nightline-televised national town meeting on health care and for more than two hours demonstrated his formidable grasp of the problem. "It has been a long time since the public has seen him wrestle with the problems of everyday working Americans," said a White House official. "They didn...
...begins considering Clinton's health-reform legislation this week. The political war reflects the public's ambivalence: a majority of Americans favor a woman's right to choose but wish she would elect to have the baby. "Most view abortion as a privacy matter," explains White House pollster Stan Greenberg. "But most abhor the act and are opposed to using tax dollars for abortions for those who can't pay for them...
...that hardly mattered: Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey had a plan and had been telling audiences that Clinton did not. The Arkansas Governor declared his plan to be "uniquely American" and promised to enact it in the first year of his administration. The tactic worked: campaign pollster Stan Greenberg noted later that once Clinton put his plan out, the issue went away...
...plans without clarifying which one he was for. Health-care groups with various agendas bombarded Clinton's Little Rock campaign headquarters with faxes charging him with backing away from the issue. In fact, the campaign was in a deliberate straddle. Clinton's aides, led by James Carville and pollster Greenberg, told him health care was important but cautioned him that the less specific he was, the better. After all, distilling his plan into 30-second commercials was nearly impossible. The Clinton priorities were aptly summed up by the sign Carville had erected in the war room. One line...
...Blendon's assessment will hold only after the tangled complexities of the Clinton plan begin to sink into public consciousness. "There has never been a national debate over health care, and these terms are all new to the American people," says Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "We're going to have an extraordinary period of public education...