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...winnow his varied and often contradictory promises to a few significant proposals capable of passing a Congress that will have its own agenda, and whether he is astute enough to understand that process and policy are inseparable. Clinton's first task, says the Progressive Policy Institute's Elaine Kamarck, must be "the definition of his mandate, something he needs to do early and often. If he doesn't do it, it will be done for him by the media, which will look to the exit polls and their own musings...
...critical for Clinton for two reasons: 1) despite his impressive victory, a majority of Americans voted for someone else; and 2) there is a vast difference between being an instrument of change and being a catalyst for change. Clinton "thought about beginning this definitional process before the election," says Kamarck, "but the result was in too much doubt, and he had to make sure...
Clinton's advisers hope he will emulate Ronald Reagan. Against the evidence, Reagan interpreted his 1980 victory as a vote for his supply-side nostrums rather than a vote against Jimmy Carter. "Reagan just said what the election was about, and pretty soon everyone bought his definition," says Kamarck. "Now, with a series of speeches culminating in his Inaugural, Clinton has to do what Reagan...
...show that working-class voters increasingly believe the system is loaded in favor of the rich and the poor, at the expense of the middle. "They see that the top of America and the bottom don't operate by the same rules as the rest of us," says Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington. "The big executives run companies into the ground and give themselves big bonuses. The welfare recipients take drugs, engage in crime and have babies they can't afford, while the legal secretary is scrimping and saving to afford another kid." These...
...sufficiently to win as a favorite son. Richard Gephardt -- who was stillborn at the new year, resuscitated in Iowa and then died aborning in the South -- is taking advantage of the new murkiness to attempt a second coming this Saturday in Michigan. Suddenly, as a result of what Elaine Kamarck, an architect of the party's rules, calls "a failure to die," there are five again...